Guru talk: Controlling Content visualization with Display Suite
Details
- Drupal Guru visiting Singapore -
No... we do not have the Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert here,
our visitor is one of Dries' fellow townsmen, from Ghent, Belgium.
Matthias Vandermaesen represents Krimson, a company that
works on large Drupal projects within media, culture, non-profit etc.
Employees of Krimson have submitted thousands of commits to
about 30 Drupal modules.
Now Matthias is here and has offered to contribute a talk to
fellow drupalheads in Singapore.
DATE: 1st March 2011
TIME: 7.15pm for registration
VENUE: 179 River Valley Rd #04-10
RSVP on this page to let us know you're coming.
SYNOPSIS:
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Drupal is a great content management framework but comes with a steep learning curve. A big problem is the way objects (nodes, comments, user profiles,...) are displayed. You don't get a lot of control out of the box. Worst case scenario: you start overriding templates in a custom theme and hard code data. It makes development hard and maintenance challenging.
Luckily, there are a number of good solutions out there to give control to the developer. Who hasn't heard of Panels ( (http://drupal.org/project/panels) http://drupal.org/project/panels )? Another great tool is Display Suite ( (http://drupal.org/project/ds) http://drupal.org/project/ds ) This module not only allows you to control visualization of individual Drupal objects through an easy UI. It's a fully fledged API giving developers the opportunity to plug in their own code.
This session will give you an introduction to Display Suite:
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What is Display Suite
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A overview of DS features
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Several demonstrations showing you the 'handiness' of DS
Duration: 45 min + 15min of questions
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Here's a link to a very recent presentation Matthias gave
on a different topic, Drupal and the semantic web.