Site Building

This year's SANDCamp site started with the great contribution LA Drupal made when they released the codebase for their camp site.

It takes a lot of work to put up a good camp website, and they're only really useful for a month or two! It is, honestly, completely out of proportion, and everyone working on it is a volunteer so tasks can take some time to finish.

But, we want to encourage *more* camps. Part of that effort is making the camp websites as easy as possible.

This session will provide a behind the scenes look at code and development process for VitalSignsME.org. A recently launched website to facilitate teaching science education to students in Maine.

This session will cover the following topics related to the site:
-Background information on the site and it's purpose
-Tour of the entire site including role specific functionality and administrative features
-A brief look at the almost quarter million lines of custom module and theme code
-Discussion of the development process and challenges

Fusion and Skinr bring power and ease of management to the Drupal theming process. From giving site content administrators or customers the power to make changes to the look, feel and layout of their site from within the administrative interface to rapidly building a new theme Drupal theming has never been more fun.

In this session we'll take a brief look at theming using a grid system and how to use that to make great looking sites and offer users the features they desire.

Introduction to Views

We'll cover the basics of Views, what kind of problems the module is great for solving, and what are its limitations. This session will include some live examples and solutions.

If you're not using Views on your site, or aren't sure why you should be, this session is for you!

Also, developers who think you don't need Views, this is the place to get started.

Topics will lead directly into Brenda's Advanced Views session.

This session assumes you know the basic usage of Views and dives deeper into arguments, relationships, and attachment views.

The purpose of this session will be to show how I start creating a custom theme. I'll talk about regions, theme files and, most importantly, css. I'll also explain why I create an initial theme and what that means in the context of working with a small team on a large site.

Learn how to setup Drupal 6 and Ubercart as well as how to connect them both up to the very popular Authorize.net gateway and Paypal standard gateway. Includes base modules as well popular modules to add on.

Basic themeing guidance included.

Determining room and time.

Learn multiple ways of setting up an SVN repository with Drupal and it's Databases on multiple OSs while taking the whole workflow further with non-techie tracking and responsible task management. How to rollback, ignore files you don't want in SVN, how to release to dev, staging and live in a non chaotic way. More details to come...

...Determining approval by local community as well as day and time and room.

Slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/ChristophWeber/a-first-look-at-drupal

This session will take you through a Drupal site for those new to Drupal. Learn what a Drupal site is and how to navigate through a site, as a site visitor and as an administrator. Understand what Drupal terms such as nodes, blocks, permissions and taxonomy mean.

You will leave this session with a well rounded, basic understanding of the innards of a Drupal site.

Presented by Kathy Hayashi and Christoph Weber

drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

In this session you will learn how to do the following tasks
ALL IN ONE COMMAND LINE!

• How to install & enable a module
• How to update ALL your 3rd party modules
• How to backup your Drupal site
• How to restore your Drupal site