Configuration, Set-Up & Performance

Drupal Commerce is the next generation e-commerce module suite for Drupal 7. The project is a re-implementation of Ubercart's core feature set on Drupal 7 using the best new core Drupal features and depending on the strongest Drupal contributions. Drupal Commerce can be dropped into existing Drupal sites to add targeted e-commerce functionality to the site or used as the basis for full-blown Drupal e-commerce distributions.

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.

In this session, we will assume a high traffic newspaper website based on Drupal which begin to have performance issues: long loading times, and even sometimes pages failing to load at all.
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Drupal is a powerful e-commerce platform, and it's not just because of its e-commerce specific modules. Drupal's core systems, contributed modules, and best practices provide you with the stability, flexibility, and power you need to build a highly functional e-commerce website. The biggest barrier to entry is simply knowing the pieces to put in place and the "gotchas" to look for as you build your site. This session aims to help you cross that barrier and start selling today.

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.

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.

At Information.dk - a Danish daily newspaper - we just launched a new taxonomy project.

We now have a taxonomy of 22.386 persons, 3.185 organisations, 1.721 places and 1.976 subjects. Most these tags are linked to da.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org and dbpedia.org. The places are also linked to geonames.

This session will describe the ideas that started the project, the different phases that lead to the current pages and some thoughts on where this could lead.

One of the first challenges of building a Drupal site is generating a complete guide to development.

Having planned and built many sites in the last few years, I'd like to extend my experience and give some perspective on how Chapter Three architects their sites.

"What data do we want to capture?"
"How are we going to display it?"
"Are there already modules do we can leverage?"
"When do we write custom code?"

These are all questions we can ask to write a roadmap that will compile that design into a working, sustainable website.