Join George DeMet, and Larry Garfield of Palantir.net in Chicago at the Palmer House as they give a workshop called: Drupal Site Building: The Big Picture as part of Museums and the Web 2015. Registration for the Workshop includes lunch and is separate from the conference registration.
This interactive workshop session is designed to help Web professionals more effectively leverage Drupal’s unique strengths as a content management platform.
Modern Web design demands visual systems that ensure content is delivered to our myriad devices, from smartphones to tablets to desktop displays and beyond, in usable ways. It requires thinking in terms of content that gets presented, often in a variety of different ways, rather than simply presentation.
Drupal has for years handled content independent of a particular design, in a sort of platonic content ideal. That makes designing for a Drupal development project a perfect fit for design systems-thinking and results in greater efficiency and better quality. Using a smart design systems approach paired with good content strategy results in a project that fits amazingly well with Drupal's own design and capabilities... if we can recognize how to unify them. Using examples from the upcoming Drupal 8, we’ll demonstrate how modern, modular design systems and practices can map directly to Drupal views, view modes, image styles, and other common site building tools. We’ll explore several leading ways to build and manage a multi-headed Drupal installation, including Domain Access, Organic Groups, and Multi-site.
Throughout the workshop, we'll also discuss things that internal Web project teams and external vendors can do to maximize the potential for success on complex Drupal projects with lots of stakeholders.
At the end of this workshop, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of how Drupal works as a system from end-to-end, and how you can leverage Drupal’s strengths in a way that ensures maximum potential for success. Drupal enables you to bring together design components, content strategy, data modeling, and site building in a unified way that results in better sites that are built faster and with more consistency.
Attendees Register here: http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/registration/
Exhibitors Register here:
About Museums and the Web:
Museums and the Web is an bi-annual international conference featuring advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Formed by leading professionals from around the world, our community has been meeting since 1997. The products of our meetings and conversations – the MW proceedings, Best of the Web archives and discussion Forum – are an unparalleled resource for museum workers, technologists, students and researchers that grows every year.
Who Comes to MW?
Every year more than 1000 people come to Museums and the Web confrences and events. You will find webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, directors, scholars, consultants, programmers, analysts, publishers and developers from museums, galleries, libraries, science centers, and archives – as well as the companies, foundations and governments that support them – at Museums and the Web every year.
The MW Program (http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/program/)
MW offers a range of professional learning opportunities, from plenary sessions to un-conference sessions, from formal papers to informal networking, from museum project demonstrations to commercial exhibits, from professional debates to lightning talks, from how-to sessions to crit rooms and the Best of the Web awards.
If you have questions you can reach us at info@museumsandtheweb