Tired of the wiki?Learn more about alternative

Content Management Systems

Ivelin Denev

Craig Wood

Outline

Product of Strategic Plan?

What you told us.

Considered alternatives

What is Drupal?

How it can help us?

How it works?

How to get involved?

What is Drupal?

Firstly programmed by Dries Buytaert as a community message board

Today, Drupal is free and open source content management

system distributed under the GNU General Public License

It is flexible

It is supported by large community of developers

It is used as a back-end system by estimated 1% of the web sites

Well respected organizations based their web projects on Drupal

High-profile websites built

using Drupal Whitehouse.gov

Mtv.co.uk

FastCompany.com

TheNation.com

Economist.com

Ubuntu.com

TNR.com

WFP.org

data.gov.uk

How can it help us? It can be used instead of MediaWiki for content

development

As it doesn’t use markup language, but html visual editor for styling the content, it can be more intuitive

Drupal can filter, and order content according to areas of interest, categories, content type, and publishing status. This way the environment can get more organized

Drupal can provide base for community management, like Internal blogs, discussion forum, and event calendars

It is flexible enough for eventually fulfilling future needs of making our content development tasks easier

What challenges we faced

with implementation

Reliability

Integration

Usability

How it works?

Drupal.demo.extension.org

Login using your eXtension credentials

Explore 4 areas of content development and

group management

publishElements of an article Title

Image to be associated with the article

Summary

Body

Attachments

Audience

Categories

Authorship

Publishing options

publishCreating new article

publishtitle, image, summary

publishediting body text

publishaudience, categories, attac

hments

publishauthors, revisions, publishing

publishorganization

My articles

Articles in my groups

My unread articles

All articles

Search

Publish

publishtaxonomy

blog

Blog is a short of “web

log”

Provide

commentary or news on a

particular

subject in

reverse-

chronological order

blog

invite

discuss

How to get involved?

Create content, use the system, express your opinion

Join us in the lab at Jim Hogg room for CMS

testing and discussions

ivelin.denev@extension.org