Intermediate

We've all seen the pattern.

Designer cleverly fills in the boxes, design looks great, client approves design, developers implement the design, site is ready to launch once we get those boxes filled in with the real conte..... What do you mean you don't have anything to go there?

As much as we love the code, great sites live and die by their content. Unfortunately, many sites are still designed and built assuming "something" will fill in the boxes. That's no way to treat your users!

Learn how to incorporate content-centric thinking into your process and:

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.

Drupal Commerce is the next generation e-commerce module suite for Drupal 7. The project is a re-implementation of Ubercart's core feature set on Drupal 7 using the best new core Drupal features and depending on the strongest Drupal contributions. Drupal Commerce can be dropped into existing Drupal sites to add targeted e-commerce functionality to the site or used as the basis for full-blown Drupal e-commerce distributions.

Video is immensely popular on the web, and you can easily add a video channel to any Drupal (and even non-Drupal) site using facilities already developed for Drupal.

This simple video system can handle almost any type of video including your own or other people's clips from Youtube, Vimeo, Google and more than a dozen other providers as well as locally or remotely hosted video files in a number of formats.

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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As the Drupal world moves forward there are key strategies out there to keep from being crushed by the elephants. A slide in the SF Drupalcon State of Drupal address by Dries talked about dancing with elephants. This session will look at the evolution of the Drupal marketplace. We will discuss strategies which we should be using to keep our businesses relevant in changing times. Verticals, install profiles, specialization and many other techniques will be presented, all focused on keeping your Drupal business in business.

Drupal is a powerful e-commerce platform, and it's not just because of its e-commerce specific modules. Drupal's core systems, contributed modules, and best practices provide you with the stability, flexibility, and power you need to build a highly functional e-commerce website. The biggest barrier to entry is simply knowing the pieces to put in place and the "gotchas" to look for as you build your site. This session aims to help you cross that barrier and start selling today.

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: