DrupalCon 2012 Roundup

University of Maryland Drupal Users Group

Recurring Topics

Mobile−Responsive Web Design

Drupal 8−Symfony−HTML5

CSS Preprocessors−Sass−LESS

Where is Drupal Now?

1.5 million sites (6.7% of CMS market, which is 30% of websites

Strengths−Strong community!−Ease of deployment

Weaknesses−Aging framework−Poor authoring experience−Talent shortage

Where is Drupal headed?

Time to kick ass with Drupal 8!

Drupal 8

Mobile, mobile, MOBILE! (Get it yet?) Symfony will replace large portion of

core−PHP framework for building web apps

HTML5 is default output−No support for IE6 or 7

Timeline−Feb 1, 2013- Code Freeze−Aug 2013- Release

Mobile (First!)

Mobile is outpacing non-mobile−>1 M mobile devices sold/activated per day−6B connections today, projected 12B by

2016

Mobile forces us to strip to essentials−Growth = Opportunity−Constraints = Focus−Capabilities = Innovation

Mobile First: Direction

Program for mobile, increase if appropriate

Mobile First: Focus

SouthWest Desktop SouthWest Mobile

Mobile First: Gains

A good user experience−Is Readable -- Uses few forms−Is Relevant -- Has no

pop-ups/modals−Is Snappy

Use responsive design−Apply breakpoints, not device detection−Be fluid, flexible: think proportions, not pixels−Consider content hierarchy / orientation

Looking Good! Techniques for lovely layouts with less mess

Views

View ModesBetter displays, less code!

Awesome database queries, less code!

ViewsLooking Good:

“Visual database query editor”

Views can find almost any information about an entity or group of entities and display it any way you like it!

Other things views can doLooking Good:

Allow visitors to sort or otherwise filter the results

Attach views to other views

Other things views can doLooking Good:

Allow visitors to sort or otherwise filter the results

Attach views to other views

Group and paginate results

Count the number of results in a group

View ModesLooking Good:

View ModesLooking Good:

View ModesLooking Good:

function agnr_extrafields_entity_info_alter(&$entity_info) { $entity_info['node']['view modes'] += array( 'subtitle_teaser' => array( 'label' => t('Subtitle Teaser'), 'custom settings' => TRUE, ), );}

View ModesLooking Good:

Extra Fields

Views + View Modes =More awesome, less code!

Modules−Views−Extra Fields bit.ly/view-modes−Possibly Display Suite or Entity View

Modes