Expert

Apache Solr is a powerful search engine well integrated with Drupal. Solr provides faceted or "guided navigation" which allows site visitors to quickly find what they are looking for by narrowing or refining their query by simply clicking on the links provided as "facets".

Unfortunately, the standard Apache Solr Search Integration module is not very suitable for non-English websites. A lot of manual work is necessary to provide a working setup e.g. for German or French websites.

In this session an industry expert will deal the straight dope on the current state of and future prospects for Drupal projects.

Drupal and most web content management systems have been with us for around a decade, prompting the vendors, trade press and analyst firms alike to call this a "mature" and "consolidating" market. However, the truth is that both buyers and consultants are still figuring out how to obtain the value they expected from the immature tools, including Drupal, and young marketplace.

The consequences are nothing but the usual:

• Budget overruns

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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Few things can liven up a room full of core developers like the word "Roadmap." Some say it would bring order to a chaotic development process, while others argue that a rigid plan would stifle Drupal's famously organic developer community. Fortunately, we don't have to speculate! While our community avoids official roadmaps, there are ample examples of long-term plans that have been used to make Drupal better.

This session will explore those successes, as well as a few notorious failures, and identify what sets them apart. We'll also take a look at important questions like:

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.

One of the most valuable modules in site development is surely the Admin menu. Why? It reduces page loads significantly and makes almost everything easier to find - without taking up much space. Why not extend that same courtesy to your users... and animate it.

You can, thanks to the Popup module and its little helpers.

Making style sheets easier to maintain for yourself and others, by fully understanding and leveraging Drupal’s theming system, and thinking of what will happen tomorrow.

We’ve all seen them; style sheets so large and confusing that we ended up adding new styles at the bottom of the file we happened to have open in our editor, instead of looking for a proper location. It’s unacceptable, especially when working together with multiple themers. In this session we’ll take a look at common pitfalls, ways to prevent these situations and keep our styles more sustainable.

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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.

This session will cover the advanced usages of 960.gs bypushing theming & grid based layouts further with preprocess functionality in the theme layer. The Omega Theme is currently a leap ahead of any other base theme in Drupal 7, and is continuing to expand new features that will revolutionize theming in D7.