Building a community site can be a daunting task. Should you use a distribution or go with a more customized approach?
This session will discuss the approach of starting with basic Drupal 7, building a basic data model, and using entities to build a decoupled foundation so that you can scale your community and add functionality without refactoring your site.
The following topics will be discussed:
- Data modeling
- Entities
- SEO
- Content strategy
- User roles/profiles
- Social media
If you want to build more efficient sites using a decoupled flexible approach, this session will help introduce some of the latest techniques to accomplish your goals.
Speaker(s):
Drupaling since 2007. Active in the South Florida Drupal community spreading the word and helping others learn Drupal.
BSEE and BSCS from FIU (state university in Miami). I did a co-op at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. After graduation, I worked for Siemens in Boca Raton and Munich (where I learned to ski in the Alps just south of Munich). I worked for other telecom companies, including Nortel, Motorola and XponCard (small SIM card manufacturer). More recently I worked for a small pharma CRM company, where I began learning Drupal after hours and on weekends. Now I am focused on Drupal full-time!
A perpetual novice, I am always trying to improve the ways to build Drupal sites more efficiently: In a decoupled flexible manner.
The more Drupal I learn, the more I realize how little Drupal I know. But to me, that is the best part of learning Drupal.