The main objective of the demo experience is to showcase the main features Drupal CMS has to offer. Therefore, having reviewed the current content I have the following suggestions.
- The initial landing page of the demo is here. If I am not familiar with Drupal it does not signpost where to go next. We need to signpost the next logical step.
- Encourage the user to log in: Link to /user and state what the login details are (username: admin, password: admin)
- Signpost to key features: add a page which lists all the main features and links directly to where you go in admin to access them. Have a short description and link for each. This will help signpost people to the most interesting sections of Drupal CMS without any prior knowledge. Here are my suggestions:
- My dashboard: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/dashboard
- Content listing: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/content
- Media library: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/content/media
- Extend your site: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/modules/browse. project browser is a big deal and should be championed
- User management: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/people
- Menu management: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/structure/menu
- Webforms: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/structure/webform
- Setting up AI: https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/admin/config/ai/providers although there are multiple steps. This is the feature which is drawing a lot of attention in DriesNotes
- Add a case study but make it Acme.com so we are not promoting a certain agency (this site will get a lot of interest) it needs to be neutral of agency.
- News items have the capability to have related items. Let's add some related items to show that off.
- Notice that https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/taxonomy/term/4 generates a "The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later."
- https://8ba4b7ae3b1ce53.qaack.1xinter.net/news throws a similar error
Have created the event on Drupal.org https://www.drupal.org/community/events/drupalcamp-england-2025-2025-03-01 →
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Configured the following social media accounts with descriptions, icons and a generic header so we can start to roll out save the date announcements and begin to grow an audience.
liampower → credited pdjohnson → .
Made contact with multiple potential sponsor to make them aware of the opportunity.
Written the Sponsor Pack based on the legacy documents from DrupalCamp London. Ready to start approaching potential sponsors for expression of interest.
liampower → credited pdjohnson → .
Are we aware that there are multiple issues on the home page if you are browsing with Safari?
First of all, wow! The new.drupal.org is amazing! What a quantum leap. I have been spending some time exploring and 2 things strike me.
- In the main menu I find this wording "Get Started" a misleading. I am sure it will have been discussed a lot but to me it does not stand our as offering me the opportunity to try Drupal out. This is a true USP for us. https://www.drupal.org/ → uses "Demo". This says exactly what it is. Could go with "Try Drupal" or "Try Now". Getting net new visitors to this demo page is a key step towards conversion.
- If the intention is to redirect from https://new.drupal.org/drupal towards https://new.drupal.org/get-started this page does not emphasise the opportunity to try a demo strongly enough
- The animation on the dropdown on the menu is very tiring on the eye. As you hunt the navigation for what you desire there is a lot of up down up down. I wonder if it is too much.
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This morning I created a list of potential sponsors. As soon as we have the venue and dates confirmed we can define the sponsorship packages and approach this list. These are primarily Drupal agencies and hosting providers. If anyone has suggestions of companies outside this that might be interested in supporting the event please comment here.
Hi @sirclickalot,
It is nice to see that you are using Front End Editing to enhance your editor experience. You are amongst many who do so. As with all the modules we release on Drupal.org we try our utmost to develop in a way which brings compatibility with the broadest range of Drupal configurations.
You are no doubt aware that each set up is different, due to the flexible nature of Drupal and many combinations of contributed and custom modules. Whilst you have taken the time to detail the issue on your specific set up, it is not possible for us to replicate your configuration and therefore reproduce the issue with any degree of confidence it mimics the behaviour.
We would be more than happy to have a call with you to offer the opportunity to have one of our team set up your system locally and troubleshoot the issue. Due to the specific nature of this work we would need to charge for this work. We are confident this would be the most time and cost effective way for you to reach a positive outcome.
If this is something that you would like to pursue, you can reach us securely via our contact form https://www.1xinternet.de/en/contact this will reach my attention.
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Taking photos of the keynotes and general shots capturing the event.
Taking photos of the keynotes and general shots capturing the event.
Taking photos of the keynotes and general shots capturing the event.
Taking group photo of the mentors and general photos of those sprinting today.
The call to action buttons blend too much into the design. The Drupal Brand has more colours in the palette, please consider drawing from this to make CTAs more visually clear.
This is the case for the button in the header
and the button linking to learn more.
List of Fortune 500 companies using Drupal circa 2022 published by Zyxware
@grienauer raises a good point here and perhaps what we need to do at the very least is ascertain when the https://events.drupal.org/media-policy was established, what events it covers and only select images which were captured at those events. Some of the media selected so far will fall outside this time and certainly not from DrupalCon.
The challenge then comes that we are looking at a very limited range of images. The solution to that is to brief photographers going forwards with what material we are encouraging them to capture for the library.
To help people be better connected and organise collaboration / participation in photography initiatives I have created #photographers in Drupal Slack.
Thank you to those who have offered to allow images to be considered for inclusion in the first edition of the Promote Drupal Image Library. We are now in a position where some draft guidelines have been written and many tens of candidate images have been gathered.
The next step is to moderate these images with the Promote Drupal team at their next meeting, this may also happen asynchronously via a Google Doc.
Kushneet → credited pdjohnson → .
Update: Following Promote Drupal call yesterday we have agreed that a set of ~30 images which represent "On Brand" will be selected (by me) from the Flickr Pools of DrupalCon and then reviewed by the Promote Drupal team. This will establish a set of example images which will
- Define the types of images we should proceed with seeking to source more of
- Help inform photographers as to what type of images we are encouraging and why
Example photographs will be made available on the new Drupal DAM (digital asset management) system so that those promoting Drupal can draw from the resource and photographers can use them as visual guidance.
The Drupal Brand Guidelines will in time be further updated to provide enhanced guidance for images.
Absolutely. I will certainly go and identify the photographers via the Flickr pools and approach them directly to make them aware of this initiative. It's great to see that the process of creating a pool continues and this will provide a rich source of high quality images.
Lille: https://www.flickr.com/groups/drupalconlille2023/pool
Prague: https://www.flickr.com/groups/drupalconprague2022/pool
Vimal,
I am so delighted to read your comment and the linked blog showing the methodology. Thank you also for making us aware of the work by Grzegorz.
During the Promote Drupal Evaluator meeting yesterday, which happens every 2 weeks, I suggested that we ideally want to seek people to take ownership of maintaining statistics Drupal references in brand story and official marketing. It sounds like you and The Drop Times may have already taken the first step in becoming that? What do you think?
We also posed the question of what rankings would it be valuable to track adoption rates for. This needs to be either at continent or global sector level perhaps. Those University rankings are an excellent example but it would be good to expand out into other rankings in for example Finance, Pharma, certain stock market indexes perhaps?
This is a new and very important area we are focussing on. I very much appreciate your making contact and look forward to working alongside you.
Paul
Attended the meeting, reported back on progress getting statistics source.
Volounteered to lead on the curation of images to be available for use with the slide deck
Subsequently written issue
https://www.drupal.org/project/promote_drupal/issues/3440289 →
and blog https://medium.com/@pdjohnson/help-us-create-a-promote-drupal-image-libr...
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Hi Alex,
this is a great idea. Knowing the user better and monitoring trends would be invaluable. It has previously occurred to me how this gap exists. Here are a few of the types of persona I would imagine may register based on my experience working in agencies and with end users (clients) and others for good measure.
- Site owner
- Content manager
- Content strategist
- SEO
- Evaluator - someone looking at Drupal as a potential option as end user. Nurturing this type of visitor would be highly beneficial
- Journalist - surely the DA would love to spot these?
- Influencer
- IT manager
- Quality Assurance Manager
- Solutions Architect
- Student - another obvious person to target specific content for
- User Experience Designer
This and maybe other personas means you can be more granular, but group them into buckets for personalisation. Because you have the more granular detail, this can be used for other purposes yet to be realised. It's not exhaustive but hopefully it stimulates thought.
I'd be wary of using "Other non software related role" as this may infer that these are users we are not interested in. At the moment they are registering we want to create a warm welcome. This could be our next great contributor, you just don't know. That's why I have proposed the likes of QA, Content manager, Content strategist etc. As Drupal and the wider web has matured, these roles have become invaluable disciplines.
You might want to consider, if this is for content targeting, to ask another question "What is your level of knowledge with Drupal?" or "What is your primary motivation to register?" this could further inform content targeting.
Do we want to add the field to make available to existing users so we can retrospectively capture these insights?