By Cindy McCourt
Drupal allows you to construct a wide selection of sites quick and simply, from easy web publication websites to advanced websites that combine with different platforms. that allows you to maximize what Drupal can do on your web site, you must plan. With this finished booklet, Drupal specialist Cindy McCourt walks you thru making plans your Drupal web site, utilizing optimum tools for leveraging the ability and suppleness of the Drupal framework. despite your point of expertise operating with Drupal, this advisor provide you with a sequence of analyses and initiatives from a Drupal standpoint so as to begin considering in Drupal and is helping you propose every one part of your site's lifecycle.
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Te ra Demonst Requirements and Quick Design ne efi Analyze Needs Launch R Test Implement the Site Sustain the Site B u il d FIGURE 2-4 Advantages Prototypes are not necessarily built with the same process that will be used to create the actual product. With Drupal, however, because the code already exists (via a module or set of modules) in many instances, “prototyping” features in a sandbox (sample) site to see what the existing modules do and determine whether that is what you want is often easy.
Non-hardware costs are associated with managing your own server environment, such as the labor to manage the server(s). If you use open source applications to run your server, software costs will be minimal. Labor Labor costs are the next most obvious expense, especially if you plan to hire someone to build your site. indd 30 6/18/2011 1:19:31 PM Budgeting for Costs ‰ User experience (UX) person ‰ Graphic artist to create the comps for the theme ‰ Themer to turn the comp into a Drupal theme ‰ Developers to create custom modules ‰ Trainers to train your content managers ‰ Server administrator ‰ Site administrator ‰ Customer support x 31 Some of the labor costs can be purchased and some might be associated with employees (which add even more expense).
Analyze needs — Establish the site’s purpose, identify how the site supports your goals, and determine if a site is your best course of action. ‰ Collect requirements — Based on the goals, gather, analyze, document, and evaluate your site requirements. ‰ Create a design — Based on the requirements, design your interfaces, workflow, interactions, information architecture, and various features you need developed. ‰ Develop the site — Based on the design and requirements, install, configure, organize, populate, develop, and test your site.