Intermediate

Drupal install profiles have been around for a while, but some recent developments such as drush make or features have turned install profiles into tools that we can actually use to build cool stuff. If you want to build a new Drupal-based product or simply want to create reusable configurations, this session is for you.

Drupal 7 is on its way, and Ubercart is following close behind it. Thousands of sites rely on hundreds of different modules that integrate with Ubercart, and it is time to make sure that they will still work when the client wants to upgrade versions.

This session will go over the major changes in Ubercart 3, and how they affect contributed modules. There will also be a demonstration showing how Ubercart's implementations of Coder Review and Coder Upgrade make the upgrade efforts easy.

Drupal Distributions are a hot topic in the Drupal community. This session is intended to share first-hand experience building multiple, popular Drupal distributions: Managing News, OpenAtrium, OpenPublish, Tattler, recently announced OpenPublic.

One of the most valuable modules in site development is surely the Admin menu. Why? It reduces page loads significantly and makes almost everything easier to find - without taking up much space. Why not extend that same courtesy to your users... and animate it.

You can, thanks to the Popup module and its little helpers.

Making style sheets easier to maintain for yourself and others, by fully understanding and leveraging Drupal’s theming system, and thinking of what will happen tomorrow.

We’ve all seen them; style sheets so large and confusing that we ended up adding new styles at the bottom of the file we happened to have open in our editor, instead of looking for a proper location. It’s unacceptable, especially when working together with multiple themers. In this session we’ll take a look at common pitfalls, ways to prevent these situations and keep our styles more sustainable.

Coverage:

What is the meaning of "Social Commerce" and how can you setup environments on the base of drupal + ubercart and other modules. The session will give an overview about the basic principles of Social Commerce as well as a short walkthru of the Ubercart modules.

Search engine optimization (SEO) helps improving the volume and quality of traffic to your web site from search engines via "organic" search results.

When optimizing a website, you should consider how search engines work and what exactly is your potential target group looking for. Generally, optimizing a website aims at increasing the website's relevance to specific keywords and removing barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

Are you new to Drupal, experienced in the software but lack an overview of how all the pieces fit together in the community? In this session I intend to provide a brief overview of what Drupal is and instead of delving into technical details, focus more on how the different avenues to improve Drupal work. Systems like distributions, localizations, issue queues, the core and contributed modules repositories, the security team, automated testing and so on. How can you collaborate with the community and make money on the way?

This session will cover the advanced usages of 960.gs bypushing theming & grid based layouts further with preprocess functionality in the theme layer. The Omega Theme is currently a leap ahead of any other base theme in Drupal 7, and is continuing to expand new features that will revolutionize theming in D7.

Yes, I said it.

Come watch me build a basic WordPress site in less time than it takes you to floss your teeth.

WordPress gets some very important things right, and their hold on this market is proof. There are 11.4 million active installations of WordPress software, compared to only hundreds of thousands of Drupal installations. We need to get our act together, raise our standards, and lower the barrier to entry.