If you're a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this concise guide will get you started. Drupal’s learning curve has thrown off many experienced designers, particularly the way it handles design challenges. This book shows you the lifecycle of a typical Drupal project, with emphasis on the early stages of site planning. Learn how to efficiently estimate and set up your own project, so you can focus on ways to make your vision a reality, rather than let project management details constantly distract you.Plan and estimate your project by discovering your client’s goals and audience perceptions Discover how Drupal works under the hood, and learn basic DrupalSpeak Frame the UX design challenge through a deeper understanding of your site’s intended users Get real content for your project as early as possible—before you start prototyping Choose the right modules for your project, and learn about several go-to modules Understand how to walk clients through the Drupal design and development process
Author(s): Dani Nordin
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 96
Table of Contents......Page 5
Contents of This Book......Page 7
A Caveat......Page 8
Using Code Examples......Page 9
How to Contact Us......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
About the Reviewers......Page 12
A Quick and Dirty Guide to DrupalSpeak™......Page 13
Talking to Clients About Drupal......Page 15
Lifecycle of a Drupal Project......Page 17
Implementation Plans: Breaking up your work......Page 19
Breaking Down the Project Goals......Page 21
Project Discovery......Page 22
Framing the Design Challenge......Page 23
Getting Your Hands Dirty with UX......Page 24
Study the organization you’re working with......Page 29
It’s not about looks......Page 30
Mind mapping......Page 31
User personas......Page 33
User Flows......Page 36
Functional Breakdowns......Page 38
Screen Sketches and Wireframes......Page 39
UX Techniques and Drupal: Practical issues to hammer out......Page 40
Websites......Page 41
Working with content......Page 43
Working with Content Types: a High-Level Overview......Page 46
Organizing your content......Page 49
Putting this all together......Page 51
So many modules. How do I choose?......Page 52
Go-to modules......Page 53
Block Class (drupal.org/block_class)......Page 54
Webform (drupal.org/project/webform)......Page 55
Field Group (drupal.org/project/field_group)......Page 56
Block Reference (drupal.org/project/block_reference)......Page 57
A completely incomplete listing......Page 58
Pre-proposal discovery: what you need to know......Page 59
Pricing a project: Fixed-Bid versus hourly......Page 61
Writing the proposal......Page 62
Getting clients to love you, even when you have to tell them “no” (and what to do if they don’t)......Page 64
The “Professional Relationship” clause......Page 66
After the Handoff: The project retrospective......Page 67
Including clients in the retrospective......Page 68
Documenting what you learned......Page 69
Documenting for the community......Page 71
Hey there! It's nice to meet you.......Page 73
About your project......Page 74
Competition......Page 75
For print projects:......Page 76
For web projects:......Page 77
Thanks again!......Page 78
Work Agreement......Page 79
Professional Relationship......Page 80
Modifications......Page 81
Author’s Alterations (AA’s)......Page 82
Releases......Page 83
Warranty of Originality......Page 84
Section 1.0: Project Background and Objectives......Page 85
Brand Messaging and Positioning Strategy......Page 86
Phase I: Strategy, Goal-setting, Requirements & Research......Page 87
Section 4.0: Budget Estimate......Page 88
Section 5.1 Who is the zen kitchen?......Page 89
6.0 Terms and Conditions......Page 90
Rejection/Cancellation of Project......Page 91
Ownership of Artwork......Page 92
Completion/Delivery of Project......Page 93
Warranty of Originality......Page 94
