1. Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export ENTICE meeting 12 November 2010 Silvia Tomanin DG-CO

2. What is it? www.drupalgardens.com Drupal-as-a-service platform For creating and hosting Drupal 7 websites No need to install software Many features ready to use Possibility to export your sites 12 November 20102Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

3. How to get a site? Registration Site creation Choose the name sitename.drupalgardens.com Choose the template Choose the default functionalities Possibility to change the domain name. 12 November 20103Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

4. What do we get? A Drupal 7 website with a set of features ready- to-use. Pages Blog entries News items FAQ items Gallery 12 November 20104Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

5. What can we customize? Themes You can pick an existent one, edit and export it You can’t import your own theme 12 November 20105Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export Work in progress on the site import feature

6. What can we customize? Modules (1/2) Many available by default Core modules Wysiwyg Spam protection Mailing list Pathauto Gallery Google Analytics 12 November 20106Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

7. What can we customize? Modules (2/2) What is missing Authentication modules (shib_auth, ldap) Multilingual support Voting API and Fivestar Wiki Workflow You can’t import your own modules 12 November 20107Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export Work in progress on the site import feature

8. Site export If you need to add functionalities you can export and host the site yourself How? http://www.drupalgardens.com/mysites More Export site Save the.tar.gz file 12 November 20108Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

9. Site export The export includes Drupal 7 core files Database Modules, themes and content Site and module configuration settings Users 12 November 20109Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

10. Site import Extract the files in your DocumentRoot Import the database Adjust settings.php file Hosting the site yourself you can add and/or develop your own themes and modules 12 November 201010Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export Work in progress on the site import feature

11. In brief PRO: perfect to become familiar with Drupal 7 without caring about hosting and maintenance. Possibility to export the whole site. CONS: not very customizable for special sites, no themes or modules import or dev (unless you host it yourself). 12 November 201011Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

12. Questions? Comments? 12 November 201012Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export