Beginner

This is the story about a hybrid, designer/developer finally giving up ultimate control for their very first, drupal project for gavinbryars.com.

What are designer and themer roles within Drupal? This panel will bring together Drupal professionals who focus on the front end. We'll look at recent work and discuss the techniques we use and the challenges we all face as designers and themers working with Drupal everyday. How can we work better together, with our beloved developers, with designers who don't know our platform, and what can we do to make sites better.

This session will describe experiences over the last year using Drupal and Ubercart for galileoscope.org, a not-for-profit e-commerce site which processed over 25,000 orders in its first year. We discuss the site’s planning, implementation, and evolution, as well as challenged faced, lessons learned, and future directions.

Several 5-to-10-minute talks given by members of the community describing what they've been up to lately. All experience levels welcome! Just leave a comment if you're interested in presenting!

In this demonstration, we'll go from a Photoshop image to a working drupal theme in 60 minutes. We'll briefly discuss wireframing and prototyping and how Drupal can help with them, and we'll make a working theme using the Zen theme and the Blueprint CSS framework.

SalesForce.com offers a robust, software-free Constituent Relationship Manager (CRM) platform. Via SalesForce's API, third party applications like Drupal offer limitless opportunities to engage your constituency. This session will offer a overview of SalesForce CRM + Drupal solutions including a crash course in Salesforce API, an overview of Drupal modules and solutions that implement SalesForce.com's data API, and demonstrations.

This session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on, and covers topics like Drupal's hook system and the Form API. By the end of the session, attendees should have resources and a foundation to start writing or extending Drupal modules!

I'll start at the top of the list of Drupal contrib projects by popularity ( http://drupal.org/project/usage ) and work my way down. For each one I'll tell you what it's used for and my opinion on its quality and usefulness. I hope to get through at least 50 modules in the time provided and give folks a lot of info on module selection.

A good start for those new to Drupal administration and a concise review for seasoned pros who are concerned with security implications of hosting Drupal web sites. We'll discuss a simple "defense in depth" strategy for keeping our Drupal sites secure, including intrusion prevention, backups, and reliability.

It's no secret that Drupal can be intimidating to new users and to those less-familiar with content management systems. This session will showcase a number of different modules that help make administering Drupal sites more intuitive to those who haven't been hanging out on IRC since the 4.6 release. Use in actual sites will be demonstrated, and there will be time at the end for everyone to share their favorite "killer module" for usability.