Most common Drupal site building pitfalls and how to avoid them!

myDropWizard (https://www.mydropwizard.com/) offers support and maintenance for Drupal sites that we didn't build initially. We've learned the hard way which site building mistakes have the greatest potential for creating issues later.

Before taking on a new client, we do an in-depth site audit (https://www.mydropwizard.com/how-it-works/site-audit) looking for security issues and checking if the site follows best practices or has any problems that would make it harder to maintain the site going forward.

In 2016 alone, we did 64 site audits!

Looking at that many sites has taught us A TON about the most common mistakes that people make when building Drupal sites. Some of them were very surprising to us as experienced Drupal site builders!

In this presentation, David Snopek will share the most common pitfalls we've seen, so that you can avoid making the same mistakes when building your sites!

NOTE: even though they might take a slightly different form depending on the version, most of these same pitfalls apply equally to Drupal 6, 7 and 8! There's bad practices enough to go around that you'll have something to learn regardless of which Drupal you use ;-)

The best food at a Meetup!

As always, Steve Klebar will bring some amazing home cookin'! We might not be the biggest Meetup, but we have the best food!

Bring your problems & successes:

Are you working on a Drupal site and hit a problem? Bring it to the meetup and we'll try to help you solve it!

Did you just create something awesome with Drupal? Or learn something cool? Show it off during a 5 minute lightning talk.

Hang out and co-work before the event (starting at 3.30pm)!

If you're available before the event, come hang out and co-work with us at the Hudson Business Lounge (http://www.hudson-business-lounge.com/) (only a couple minutes drive from C2): 310 E Buffalo St

Basically, we'll all be sitting around working on our own Drupal-related things. This is a great time to ask for in-depth help with something or just see what everyone else is doing with Drupal.

You can call or text me (David) if you have trouble finding us: (262) 422-2337