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Drupal. Karen Niemla, University of Louisiana at Monroe David Comeaux , Tulane University LUC 2011. From Start to Finish. Why choose Drupal?. Easy, right???. “ LibGuides enables you to distribute library content and services outside of the library website.”.

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Drupal

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  1. Drupal Karen Niemla, University of Louisiana at Monroe David Comeaux, Tulane University LUC 2011 From Start to Finish

  2. Why choose Drupal?

  3. Easy, right???

  4. “LibGuides enables you to distribute library content and services outside of the library website.”

  5. “Drupal is a very extensible web platform, and provides many APIs to help you build your application. “

  6. You want hosting? Hire a webhost.

  7. HostGator Hosting 3 yrs.: $178.20

  8. What is a CMS? • A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to do the following: • Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data • Control access to data, based on user roles (defining which information users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.) • Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data • Reduce repetitive duplicate input • Improve the ease of report writing • Improve communication between users (Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system)

  9. Advantages of CMS • Helps ensure consistent layout • Increases usability and accessibility • Allows variety of staff to contribute web content • Authenticated users • Admin users • Custom users with specific roles

  10. Why Drupal for Tulane? • Original plan was to use a commercial tool (CommonSpot) that had been adopted by Tulane’s Office of Web Communication

  11. Why Drupal for Tulane? • Drupal was based on PHP and MYSQL – with which both of our developers had familiarity • Adopted by many libraries • Much simpler to use and implement than CS

  12. Drupal in Libraries Out of 114 ARL libraries, Drupal is by far the most widely used CMS:

  13. At Tulane • We launched our Drupal site in 2010

  14. Drupal and Redesign • Switch to Drupal was by far the easiest part of the redesign process • Biggest task was cleanup of the existing HTML • We copied text from the browser, then pasted into Dreamweaver’s WYSIWYG editor • We then took the source code from Dreamweaver and pasted that into Drupal

  15. What do I need to run Drupal?

  16. database language

  17. library.tulane.edu

  18. tulane.edu/library

  19. How do I install Drupal?

  20. 1) Download

  21. 2) Read INSTALL.txtinstructions

  22. 3) Create database & user

  23. 4) Upload

  24. 5) Install

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