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Introduction To Drupal And The Future of Drupal

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Anthony Ogbonna
Anthony Ogbonna

Drupal is an open-source content management platform powering millions of websites. It was created in 2000 by Dries Buytaert as a blog and has since grown to be maintained by one of the largest open source communities. Drupal allows for flexible and customizable digital experiences through its modules, themes, and distributions. The latest version, Drupal 8, focuses on powering digital businesses and experiences beyond just websites. Going forward, Drupal aims to integrate with new technologies through its API-first architecture while remaining a platform for ambitious and scalable digital experiences.

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INTRODUCTION TO DRUPAL & THE FUTURE OF DRUPAL Presented by / Company / A Digital Solutions Provider based in Lagos, Nigeria, Phone: 081 7608 4053 Email: tony@icelark.com Strategic Partner of the Future Digital Business Leaders, for their Digital Platforms, Products and Experiences Tony N. Ogbonna (CEO/Developer Icelark Projects) @togbonna Icelark Projects (www.icelark.com) @icelarkProjects
WHAT IS DRUPAL? Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It¡¯s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. Motto: Come for the so ware, stay for the community. O?icial Websites: |www.drupal.org www.drupal.com
WHAT IS DRUPAL? Further... A content management system (CMS) and a web application development framework. So, what is a CMS? A piece of so ware used to organize, update and present websites. A type of online web application.
WHAT IS A CMS? A computer program that allows for the publishing, editing and modifying of content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Are o en used to run websites containing blogs, news, shopping, etc. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMSs. typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding and running websites manually.
BUT DRUPAL IS MUCH MORE THAN A CMS... It is a Web Experience Management system: 1. Content Management 2. Community Management 3. Commerce Management 4. Much more... Drupal is designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage di?erent varieties of websites or web applications.
DRUPAL AS AN APPLICATION FRAMEWORK... A piece of so ware with which you can build other application so ware. Can be what you want it to be. As a result, Drupal is usually described as... Powerful, flexible Extensible, reliable, configurable Scalable, stable and secure
HISTORY: SO WHERE DID DRUPAL COME FROM? Dries Buytaert 2000, a student of the University of Antwerp, Belgium at that time. Built a web blog to communicate with his friends. A er graduation he release the code as open source. Fast-forward to today, Drupal is maintained by one of the largest open source community in the world.
DRUPAL IN PERSPECTIVE To date Drupal has... ...8 core versions and the core code base is updated at least once every month. As a result your website will always be up to date in terms of security and web standards.
To date Drupal has... ...over 32, 000 extension modules, over 2, 000 themes and close to 1000 distributions. These represents various functionality with which you can create almost any type of website or web application you can imagine. Most likely, a module exists for your every need.
To date Drupal has... ...over 1.2 Million people in 228 countries (including Nigeria) speaking 181 languages power Drupal. 2% of websites in the entire Internet runs on Drupal. 6% of the top 1 million websites runs on Drupal. 9% of the top 100k websites runs on Drupal. As a result Drupal is well tested, robust and very secure.
WHAT IS DRUPAL 8? The latest version of Drupal, released in November, 2015. O?icially: Drupal 8 is the new standard for creating incredible digital experiences¡ªfor small businesses, global enterprises, and everything in between. DIGITAL EXPERIENCES, not website experiences.
Drupal 8 in particular, o?ers many additions and upgrades that will help bring your digital business boldly into todays age of the customer. Drupal 8 is an engine for digital innovation, beyond just building websites and web pages. It is built with the recognition that digital is more than just marketing; that in todays world, digital is your business. Accelerating your path towards becoming a digital business (digitization) is at the heart of Drupal 8 capabilities.
THE FUTURE OF DRUPAL
SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION
DRUPAL VS WORDPRESS COMPARISON Security 4.5 | 3 Ease of Use 3 | 4.5 A?ordability 4 | 4.5 SEO 4 | 4 Customizability 4.5 | 4 Performance 4 | 3.5
THE MISTAKE ABOUT DRUPAL VS WORDPRESS COMPARISON Most comparisons assumes that Drupal is competing against WordPress for the websites marketplace The truth is that Drupal is competing in the Digital Experience marketplace Of which the website market is just a small part
DRUPAL'S COMPETITORS 1. So ware As A Service Builders Single blogs, brochure and portfolio websites are best served by these SaaS tools 2. WordPress-Class Competitors 3. Enterprise Digital Experience platforms: Sitecore, Adobe Web Experience Manager Enterprise solutions has moved beyond CMS and are competing on marketing capabilities
DRUPAL'S ADVANTAGES AND FUTURE FOCUS Some background info The technolgy stack is expanding Some other technologies that are competing against CMSs in some form: NodeJS, Angular, Symfony, ReactJS, Laravel, Vue.js, etc
DRUPAL'S ADVANTAGES AND FUTURE FOCUS API-First Content-centric architecture Decoupled, Headless CMSs Instead of fighting against these competing technologies, Drupal is corporating, complementing and empowering them,
DRUPAL'S FUTURE Drupal is for Ambitious Digital Experiences Can scale from small to large websites and applications Can integrate with numerous external systems to create complex digial ecosystems Is ready now for technologies yet to be invented
DRUPAL IS READY FOR THE FUTURE
THANK YOU!
- THE END - | - www.drupal.org www.drupal.com www.DrupalNigeria org - A Presentation of Icelark Projects - www.icelark.com @icelarkProjects

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  • 2. WHAT IS DRUPAL? Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It¡¯s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. Motto: Come for the so ware, stay for the community. O?icial Websites: |www.drupal.org www.drupal.com
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  • 5. BUT DRUPAL IS MUCH MORE THAN A CMS... It is a Web Experience Management system: 1. Content Management 2. Community Management 3. Commerce Management 4. Much more... Drupal is designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage di?erent varieties of websites or web applications.
  • 6. DRUPAL AS AN APPLICATION FRAMEWORK... A piece of so ware with which you can build other application so ware. Can be what you want it to be. As a result, Drupal is usually described as... Powerful, flexible Extensible, reliable, configurable Scalable, stable and secure
  • 7. HISTORY: SO WHERE DID DRUPAL COME FROM? Dries Buytaert 2000, a student of the University of Antwerp, Belgium at that time. Built a web blog to communicate with his friends. A er graduation he release the code as open source. Fast-forward to today, Drupal is maintained by one of the largest open source community in the world.
  • 8. DRUPAL IN PERSPECTIVE To date Drupal has... ...8 core versions and the core code base is updated at least once every month. As a result your website will always be up to date in terms of security and web standards.
  • 9. To date Drupal has... ...over 32, 000 extension modules, over 2, 000 themes and close to 1000 distributions. These represents various functionality with which you can create almost any type of website or web application you can imagine. Most likely, a module exists for your every need.
  • 10. To date Drupal has... ...over 1.2 Million people in 228 countries (including Nigeria) speaking 181 languages power Drupal. 2% of websites in the entire Internet runs on Drupal. 6% of the top 1 million websites runs on Drupal. 9% of the top 100k websites runs on Drupal. As a result Drupal is well tested, robust and very secure.
  • 11. WHAT IS DRUPAL 8? The latest version of Drupal, released in November, 2015. O?icially: Drupal 8 is the new standard for creating incredible digital experiences¡ªfor small businesses, global enterprises, and everything in between. DIGITAL EXPERIENCES, not website experiences.
  • 12. Drupal 8 in particular, o?ers many additions and upgrades that will help bring your digital business boldly into todays age of the customer. Drupal 8 is an engine for digital innovation, beyond just building websites and web pages. It is built with the recognition that digital is more than just marketing; that in todays world, digital is your business. Accelerating your path towards becoming a digital business (digitization) is at the heart of Drupal 8 capabilities.
  • 13. THE FUTURE OF DRUPAL
  • 15. DRUPAL VS WORDPRESS COMPARISON Security 4.5 | 3 Ease of Use 3 | 4.5 A?ordability 4 | 4.5 SEO 4 | 4 Customizability 4.5 | 4 Performance 4 | 3.5
  • 16. THE MISTAKE ABOUT DRUPAL VS WORDPRESS COMPARISON Most comparisons assumes that Drupal is competing against WordPress for the websites marketplace The truth is that Drupal is competing in the Digital Experience marketplace Of which the website market is just a small part
  • 17. DRUPAL'S COMPETITORS 1. So ware As A Service Builders Single blogs, brochure and portfolio websites are best served by these SaaS tools 2. WordPress-Class Competitors 3. Enterprise Digital Experience platforms: Sitecore, Adobe Web Experience Manager Enterprise solutions has moved beyond CMS and are competing on marketing capabilities
  • 18. DRUPAL'S ADVANTAGES AND FUTURE FOCUS Some background info The technolgy stack is expanding Some other technologies that are competing against CMSs in some form: NodeJS, Angular, Symfony, ReactJS, Laravel, Vue.js, etc
  • 19. DRUPAL'S ADVANTAGES AND FUTURE FOCUS API-First Content-centric architecture Decoupled, Headless CMSs Instead of fighting against these competing technologies, Drupal is corporating, complementing and empowering them,
  • 20. DRUPAL'S FUTURE Drupal is for Ambitious Digital Experiences Can scale from small to large websites and applications Can integrate with numerous external systems to create complex digial ecosystems Is ready now for technologies yet to be invented
  • 21. DRUPAL IS READY FOR THE FUTURE
  • 23. - THE END - | - www.drupal.org www.drupal.com www.DrupalNigeria org - A Presentation of Icelark Projects - www.icelark.com @icelarkProjects