Drupal Camp Connecticut 2010 - Site Building http://2010.drupalcampct.org/taxonomy/term/9/0 en Building and managing high traffic Drupal publishing and news sites http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/building-and-managing-high-traffic-drupal-publishing-and-news-sites-0 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> 202 </div> </div> </div> <p>This session will cover how to build, stage, and deploy sites for the publishing industry using the OpenPublish distribution from Phase II.</p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/building-and-managing-high-traffic-drupal-publishing-and-news-sites-0#comments advertising business news openpublish publishing Site Building 10:40 to 11:30am Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:48:28 +0000 skottler 77 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org Building and managing a news website with Drupal http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/building-and-managing-news-website-drupal <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> 202 </div> </div> </div> <p>This case study will provide an overview of the building and management of a news website. As an editor who is primarily responsible for the content on the site, I found Drupal to be extremely flexible in allowing me to set up and customize my site. Some of the topics include: content types, custom workflow, featured article slideshows, and automated critical alerts pulled from RSS feeds.</p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/building-and-managing-news-website-drupal#comments content strategy news Site Building workflow 3:10 to 4:00pm Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:14:14 +0000 markstricker 73 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org Site Maintenance Basics http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/site-maintenance-basics <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> 103 </div> </div> </div> <p>Learn about the basics when it comes to maintaining your Drupal site. This session will discuss good practices for database backups, Drupal's various reporting and status reports, and performing core and module updates.</p> <p>As time permits, svn integration and Drush will be demonstrated.</p> <p>Slides from this presentation are <a href="http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2010/08/drupaleasy-drupal-camp-connecticut">available here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/site-maintenance-basics" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/site-maintenance-basics#comments backup drush logs Security Site Building svn updates 3:10 to 4:00pm Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:58:36 +0000 ultimike 70 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org Image Workflows http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/image-workflows <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> Auditorium </div> </div> </div> <p>This session will demonstrate various methods of giving content administrators the ability to easily place and resize images within their content from the Drupal admin area. </p> <p>ImageCache, ImageField, WYSIWYG, Image Resize Filter, Insert, Imagefield Crop, and ImageAPI will all be used to create various workflows that will keep image download sizes at a minimum while still giving your content creators the ability to place and size images in-line with their content, similar to desktop publishing tools.</p> <p><a href="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/image-workflows" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/image-workflows#comments imagecache images Site Building wysiwyg 4:10 to 5:00pm Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:55:10 +0000 ultimike 69 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org Using Domain Access for multiple sites http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/using-domain-access-multiple-sites <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> 202 </div> </div> </div> <p>Many enterprise IT organizations are looking to manage a wide range of web properties with a single content management instance. Drupal provides three options for multi-site management. One of the better options is the Domain Access Module.</p> <p><strong>Benefits of the Drupal Domain Access Module</strong></p> <ul> <li>Maintain multiple Drupal sites with one install of Drupal on one server </li><li>Using Domain Access, there is one master web site and any number of sub-site domains.<br /> </li></ul><p><a href="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/using-domain-access-multiple-sites" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/using-domain-access-multiple-sites#comments multisite Site Building 11:40 to 12:30pm Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:49:24 +0000 MarkSacco 54 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org Creating Content Types with CCK http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/creating-content-types-cck-0 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> 203 </div> </div> </div> <p>Content types are used to capture and store data that is displayed on your site. Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to any of the content types using a web interface. This class would demonstrate how to create a content type and work with other modules to create custom fields, including: </p> <p>* Text<br /> * File<br /> * Nodereference<br /> * Optionwidgets<br /> * Fieldgroup </p> <p>Precursor to the Build your site with Views presentation as the content type and fields will be referenced during that presentation.</p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/creating-content-types-cck-0#comments Site Building 10:40 to 11:30am Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +0000 nflowers1228 53 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org Views http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/views <div class="field field-type-text field-field-location"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Room/Location:&nbsp;</div> 203 </div> </div> </div> <p>Update 8-29<br /> I uploaded a tar file of the demo site and database.<br /> You can download that here. <a href="http://www.rvtc.us/files/demorvtc.tar.gz" title="http://www.rvtc.us/files/demorvtc.tar.gz">http://www.rvtc.us/files/demorvtc.tar.gz</a><br /> There is a file in the main folder called INSTALL_DEMO.txt that will explain how to set it up.<br /> I will make a video early this week on the Views Tabs so just keep an eye out for that here <a href="http://rvtc.blip.tv/" title="http://rvtc.blip.tv/">http://rvtc.blip.tv/</a> &lt;--the first 10 videos are recent demo videos of our work but after that are some drupal tutorials.<br /> Also attached the presentation which has some info and links that may help though the one demo link on the site will bring you to the 4 demos.</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-slides-docs"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Slides and Docs:&nbsp;</div> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/sites/default/files/slides-docs/Slides.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1123351">Slides.pdf</a></div> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <div class="field-label-inline"> Slides and Docs:&nbsp;</div> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/sites/default/files/slides-docs/Slides_0.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1123351">Slides.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/views" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://2010.drupalcampct.org/content/views#comments Site Building 3:10 to 4:00pm Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:04:51 +0000 alfrednutile 19 at http://2010.drupalcampct.org