Florida Drupalcamp 2012 - Site Building

Drupal in the Public Sector - An overview of OpenPublic

jpstuddard — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:33:31 +0000

This session will provide an overview of Phase II's OpenPublic Distribution tailored to the needs of local, state, and federal government agencies.

jpstuddard

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 16:15 - 17:00

Room:

Big Couch

Case Study: RightServiceFL.org

ryanprice — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:09:06 +0000

The role of libraries in today’s technology culture is expanding: To serve the increasing base of socially-needy in our communities, libaries now provide ready access to family assistance, healthcase, housing to immigration. Learn how OCLS got an online system up adn running quickly and easily using Drupal.

fox.joshua

ryanprice

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 10:45 - 11:30

Room:

Rollins PNLC

SEO and Drupal: Best Practices and Tools

mherchel — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:24:05 +0000

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your website to increase visibility through 'organic' search engine results. Properly done, it can dramatically increase your site's traffic, which can lead to increased sales.

Drupal is one of the most SEO friendly platforms available. Through various core and contrib modules, Drupal gives the site-builder world class tools to perform heavy-duty SEO optimization.

During this presentation, I'll walk the attendee through powerful SEO concepts and Drupal-specific tools including:

mherchel

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 09:45 - 10:30

Room:

Mediacurrent

Slides:

seo-drupal.pdf

Having fun with Drupal 7 Fields

jmoraca — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:12:22 +0000

Understanding the various field type modules that come with core and contrib. You will be surprised by all of the different use cases you can handle with the fields that are available in Drupal 7

We will cover the default field types that come with Drupal 7 core - and review the "article" content type.

Adding field types with modules - fields like email / phone / date / address / geofield

Fun with files / pictures and video - including a field slideshow.

jmoraca

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 14:00 - 14:45

Room:

Mediacurrent

Slides:

HavingFunwithFields.pdf

VirtualBox for managable Drupal development

duckydan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:11:56 +0000

VirtualBox is a great way to quickly create and manage development environments. I'll be showing how to do everything you need in VirtualBox remotely using just a browser and phpVirtualBox, including quickly installing drush and setting up Drupal systems that are isolated and very close to what you get in a VPS environment such as Linode.

duckydan

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 09:45 - 10:30

Room:

Trellon

Slides:

Presentation.pdf

Drupal 7 Power Tools: Entities

ryanprice — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:26:38 +0000

Watch the slides on SlideShare.net

Many features of powerful data-driven sites used to be implemented as Nodes in Drupal: Media, Social Networking, Groups, eCommerce, to name a few. These days, the Node is being unseated as the most powerful structure in Drupal site building.

Drupal 7 introduced a new layer of abstraction - Entities.

ryanprice

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 09:45 - 10:30

Room:

Drupal Easy

Slides:

entity_rp_20111231.pdf

Use Display Suite, Make Fewer Custom Templates

ultimike — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:12:10 +0000

The Display Suite module is a wonderful way of customizing node (and any entity for that matter) templates through a drag-and-drop UI. You'll be amazed at how Display Suite elegantly extends what Drupal core provides site administrators when it comes to displaying entity content.

ultimike

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 14:00 - 14:45

Room:

Drupal Easy

Slides:

Display_Suite.pdf

Drupal Gardens | Fasttrack to Awesome Drupal SItes

jeppy64 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:47:13 +0000

DaaS (Drupal as a service) allows developers to create Drupal websites quickly and efficiently while offering tools to ease the Drupal learning curve significantly. Create sites with all the Drupal goodness in less time, with no downloads or maintenance.

jeppy64

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 10:45 - 11:30

Room:

Big Couch

Building a mobile site in one hour using Mobile Tools and Jquery Mobile

mherchel — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:06:25 +0000

People are using mobile devices to browse the web more than ever. 53% of American consumers use their smartphones to access search engines at least once a day. This trend will continue and mobile device views are on track to overtake desktop device views by 2014. If your website does not have a mobile optimized, you are missing out on conversions.

mherchel

Status:

Accepted

Time slot:

11 February 16:15 - 17:00

Room:

Drupal Easy

Slides:

drupal-jqm.pdf