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managing content

How to Keep Content from Ruining your Content Management System

Crystal Williams 27 May 2010
Type:  Not planned session

It's a CONTENT Management System... so why do we (and our clients) so often ignore the content until the last second? Learn to read the signs early and get more sites launched on time by managing the content and not just the code.

We've all seen the pattern.

Designer cleverly fills in the boxes, design looks great, client approves design, developers implement the design, site is ready to launch once we get those boxes filled in with the real conte..... What do you mean you don't have anything to go there?

As much as we love the code, great sites live and die by their content. Unfortunately, many sites are still designed and built assuming "something" will fill in the boxes. That's no way to treat your users!

Learn how to incorporate content-centric thinking into your process and:

Add a video channel to your Drupal site

Martin Joergensen 25 May 2010
Type:  Not planned session

This session will show you how to create a fully integrated video channel with Drupal using CCK, Emfield and Views.

Video is immensely popular on the web, and you can easily add a video channel to any Drupal (and even non-Drupal) site using facilities already developed for Drupal.

This simple video system can handle almost any type of video including your own or other people's clips from Youtube, Vimeo, Google and more than a dozen other providers as well as locally or remotely hosted video files in a number of formats.

Resources:  Global FlyFisher Video Channel Drupal does video

Building Content Types and Displaying Content

Ryan Szrama 20 May 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Adding content to Drupal is easy. Right out of the box you can create pages with specific menu items and articles that promote to your front page with minimal effort. But what if you need more? Come to this session to find out how Drupal's core systems empower you to create and display any number of custom content types.

Adding content to Drupal is easy. Right out of the box you can create pages with specific menu items and articles that promote to your front page with minimal effort. But what if you need more? Come to this session to find out how Drupal's core systems empower you to create and display any number of custom content types.

This session is aimed at beginners. It will cover the following topics in the format of a walkthrough to introduce new Drupal users to the major concepts involved in building, displaying, and managing content on their Drupal site:

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