Demonstrating possible CMS functionality using a leading open source software option CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DEMO KEY SITE REQUIREMENTS Highly Visual: Videos, Photos, & Slideshows Informative Provide Services Part of the Social Web Works on all device browsers ADA Compliant Easy to Search Easy to Navigate Looks like a million bucks KEY CMS REQUIREMENTS No Programming Required Secure Versioning No limits Easy to use Affordable OPEN SOURCE Community of collaborators – developers, testers, writers Similarities to academic research Open source collaborators are generally selfish Firefox is an open source product Google, Facebook, and YouTube run on open source products An Apple Mac and a Tivo run on open source operating systems You can freely use, modify, and distribute open source software Open source software has implementation, support, and operational costs OPEN SOURCE CMS OPTIONS WordPress Joomla Drupal DRUPAL Drupal is pronounced DREWpull. Drupal is the purposeful misspelling of the Dutch word druppel and means drop. Originally, in 2000, the lead developer wanted to use the name dorp (Dutch for village) for a news and notes site for Antwerp students. EVALUATING OPEN SOURCE No sales reps No sales materials Download and try WHITE HOUSE FCC LONDON EMMYS GRAMMY AWARDS UWT HOSTING OPTIONS Internal Cloud (Vmware ESX and NetApp) Public Cloud (e.g. Amazon EC2) SaaS (e.g. Acquia) SITE OPTIONS Internet Site (Drupal 6 or 7, Pressflow) Intranet Site (Drupal 6 or 7, Pressflow) Collaboration Site (Drupal Commons, Atrium) Video and Photo Sharing Site Event Site News Site eCommerce Site DRUPAL PLATFORM Linux Operating System Apache Web Server MySQL Database Server PHP Web Development Language BUILD YOUR CMS First you build your content management system Modules Themes Libraries BUILD YOUR SITE Then you build your site Nodes Fields Views Menus Panels Content Types – Page, Article, … HTML EDITOR WYSIWYG editor with source code option CKEditor TinyMCE IMCE (Image Uploader) THEMES Base Themes Sub Themes Download Free or Commercial Pre-Built Themes Fusion Hire a Web Development Company Bear Web Development & Marketing Services DATABASE-DRIVEN CONTENT Content stored in database as nodes, comments, and menus Display nodes as web pages Display nodes as lists and menus using views and taxonomy TRAINING Amazon has 217 Drupal books and 8 Drupal DVDs Online, Offsite, and Onsite Training Lullabot DrupalCon .