Building a Template for the Marketplace: Challenges and opportunities
Time: Wednesday 13th May 13:50-14:20
Room: Waterfront
Track: Drupal Development
The Drupal Marketplace is a new initiative where Drupal agencies are able to showcase site “Templates” which wrap up best practice patterns for enhanced site building. Templates encapsulate many of the new directions in Drupal: Drupal CMS, Canvas, Recipes and SDCs. Being part of Drupal CMS they also touch on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, enhanced editor workflows and advanced component driven designs. The Marketplace and Templates are a showcase of what is coming in Drupal and points to new skills and approaches which will need to be adopted.
The Drupal community as a whole needs to adapt to these new ways of working. In a sense it is similar to the changes we saw from moving to Drupal 8. New patterns and ways of working will need to be learnt. There is a lot to take in. The presentation aims to bring site builders and developers up to speed with the main changes and gotchas along the way.
Aims
Get agencies and developers up to speed with what is coming
Identify the challenges and opportunities ahead.
The presentation will cover
Overview of the Marketplace and the moving parts
Requirements of the Marketplace and Templates
Single Directory Components - The basics
Canvas - A new way of thinking
Finding the middle ground between Canvas and Paragraphs
Mental model adjustments for design and build.
The presentation will draw some conclusions on:
The positioning of Drupal in the wider marketplace
The competing drivers of contents vs presentation
The presentation has been listed in the Development track, as there will be helpful introductory material for devs getting up to speed. There will be value for agency owners and clients who would like to get their head around the bigger picture.
The Drupal community as a whole needs to adapt to these new ways of working. In a sense it is similar to the changes we saw from moving to Drupal 8. New patterns and ways of working will need to be learnt. There is a lot to take in. The presentation aims to bring site builders and developers up to speed with the main changes and gotchas along the way.
Aims
Get agencies and developers up to speed with what is coming
Identify the challenges and opportunities ahead.
The presentation will cover
Overview of the Marketplace and the moving parts
Requirements of the Marketplace and Templates
Single Directory Components - The basics
Canvas - A new way of thinking
Finding the middle ground between Canvas and Paragraphs
Mental model adjustments for design and build.
The presentation will draw some conclusions on:
The positioning of Drupal in the wider marketplace
The competing drivers of contents vs presentation
The presentation has been listed in the Development track, as there will be helpful introductory material for devs getting up to speed. There will be value for agency owners and clients who would like to get their head around the bigger picture.
Speakers
Murray Woodman
Murray is a long-time contributor to the Drupal community and the Managing Director at Morpht, a Sydney-based Drupal development company. Murray’s interests include the semantic web, content modelling, personalisation and AI. Most recently, he has been working on implementing a Template for the Drupal Marketplace.
Murray regularly speaks on a variety of subjects, most recently in the areas of personalisation, content modelling, AI, site building and project management.
- Regular speaker at Drupal meetups and Camps since 2010.
- Regular speaker at DrupalSouth and DrupalGov (Australia) since 2010.
- DrupalCon Sydney 2013: CDNs
- DrupalCon LA 2015: Paragraphs
- DrupalCon Nashville 2018: Paragraphs, Bricks and Modifiers
- DrupalCon Virtual 2021: Sajari search
Murray regularly speaks on a variety of subjects, most recently in the areas of personalisation, content modelling, AI, site building and project management.
- Regular speaker at Drupal meetups and Camps since 2010.
- Regular speaker at DrupalSouth and DrupalGov (Australia) since 2010.
- DrupalCon Sydney 2013: CDNs
- DrupalCon LA 2015: Paragraphs
- DrupalCon Nashville 2018: Paragraphs, Bricks and Modifiers
- DrupalCon Virtual 2021: Sajari search
Additional speakersNone