DrupalCon London 2011 - Drupal 7

Content Staging and Deployments in Drupal 7

dixon_ — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:14:45 +0000

Dick Olsson

Katherine Bailey

Content staging and deployment strategies are something that many site builders are fighting with. Publishers wants to preview and optimize content or whole sections of a site, before publishing it live. Another scenario is where publishers wants to deploy content from one site to a network of sub sites, or similar. It's a complex problem to solve.

Intended Audience:

Site builders and configurators. Basic Drupal knowledge will help.

Questions answered by this session:

How do I preview pieces of content or whole sections of my site, before publishing it live?

How do I set up an environment that supports content staging?

How do I configure the Deploy module for Drupal 7?

How will the Configuration Management Initiative help content staging and deployments in the future?

Schedule info

Time slot:

25 August 11:00 - 12:00

Room:

Concert Hall

Slides:

Content_Staging_and_Deployments_in_Drupal.pdf

Doing Drupal Security Right

Gábor Hojtsy — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:40:46 +0000

Gábor Hojtsy

Drupal strives to be a very secure system by design, but it comes with responsibilities for the site architect, maintainer and even the sysadmin to take into account. This session aims at providing an overview of the main responsibilities and fallacies of the respective roles.

We will cover Drupal setup best practices, suggested modules and some coding guidelines as well.

Intended Audience:

Trying to cover all grounds. The focus mostly is people setting up sites, but some coding and backend content will also be included.

Questions answered by this session:

What are the most common mistakes Drupal coders make?

How can I avoid dangerous permissions and settings?

Are there any modules to secure my site with?

Schedule info

Time slot:

23 August 14:15 - 15:15

Room:

Ashcroft Theatre

Slides:

DrupalSecurity2011London.pdf

Minnesota Usability Study : What Do Users Have to Say About Drupal 7?

dcmistry — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:49:03 +0000

Angie Byron

Brad Bowman

Jennifer Lea Lampton

Three years after our first round of formal usability testing on Drupal 6, the UX team returned to the University of Minnesota in May 2011 to uncover usability issues and patterns for Drupal 7. After making broad changes in D7, it was critical for us to validate if we are inching forward in our goal. With this aim in mind, we tested eight participants and asked them to perform some tasks. All the participants were site builders with no experience with Drupal.

Intended Audience:

Attend this panel presentation if you are interested in usability, understanding the user experience and the usability road map for Drupal 8.

Questions answered by this session:

How was the study conducted?

What was tested?

What works well and what needs improvement in D7?

How was the overall experience for our users of using D7?

What does this mean for Drupal 8?

Schedule info

Time slot:

24 August 10:30 - 11:30

Room:

Ashcroft Theatre

Slides:

DCL-UMN-Usability.pdf