Wisconsin

Learn how to debug and troubleshoot Drupal! We'll cover how to use simple debugging and troubleshooting methods to fix problems when building your Drupal site.

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Building and launching your new website is only the beginning. Now you need to convince people to actually visit your site!

One of the most common ways to find products, services or information is through search engines like Google. How can you make sure your website is found by the people looking for it? This is where Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes in.

In this presentation, Matt Glaman will show us the tools and techniques for rocking SEO with Drupal!

(BTW, Matt is also giving a presentation "Kickstarting Your Online Store" at the Kenosha Drupal Meetup on 5/8. I know several people from our group are already planning to go - come check it out!)

Want to learn how to setup an online store without knowing code?

During this meetup we'll show how to sign up for Pantheon's platform and install Commerce Kickstart - without touching a single file!

Learn how to setup your store, add products, setup PayPal and more.

Have you tried Drupal Commerce before, hit a road block or have questions? After the initial demonstration there will be a Q&A session to answer as many Drupal Commerce questions as possible!

Do you have a server (or local development environment) with several Drupal sites on it? Or are you looking to set one up?

There's lots of tools for managing websites, ranging from the command line to web-based graphical tools like CPanel.

One AWESOME tool for Drupal is Aegir: it's a Drupal distribution for managing Drupal sites!

Want to launch a new site? Just create a new "Site" node. ;-) Aegir takes care of the server configuration and performs the install for you.

CANCELLED!

We will reschedule in May. Date to be announced shortly.

TC Drupal is planning our next quarterly sprint at the offices of TEN7 on Saturday - April 19th, 2014 (10:00am - 4:00pm). Lunch will be provided.

* TEN7
* 718 Washington Ave. N - Suite 301
* Minneapolis, MN 55401

Mentors will be available to help beginners. We will also have some folks contributing to Drupal documentation.

Sign up HERE on groups.drupal.org!

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Drupal’s strength lies in its ability to pull together many different contrib modules to solve your problem. But what happens when contrib modules can't do what you need?

Do you cry, swear, or panic? What about when the client wants their site to work "just so", and you have no idea where to start?

Fear not! Armed with nothing more than a debugger, a few simple functions, and lots of nested arrays, you can tweak existing modules to work the way you want, or build entirely new functionality!

If you've ever built a website on a team (big or small), you know there are many more challenges than just the technical! You've got to deal with deadlines, budgets, acurately conveying requirements, keeping track of who's working on what, handling dependencies between different components of the project, tracking bugs, and keeping the stakeholders (ie. clients, bosses) up-to-date on progress, etc...

And if you've never worked on a team - well, learning about some of these things and common pitfalls will get you ready for when you do. :-)

This month, Steve Klebar is going to lead an informal conversation about managing the software development process for small teams. He will talk about his experiences using Agile and JIRA as tools and the benefits of capturing user stories, scenarios and Behavior-driven Development (BDD).

Please bring YOUR war stories as well! Hearing about what went wrong in real life can help demonstrate why these practices are necessary. (And it's super fun to talk about! ;-))