Simplifying End-user Drupal 7 Content Administration

Submitted by fosterinteractive on Tue, 2011-10-11 23:10
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Day: 
Sunday
Time Slot: 
11:30am - 12:15pm
Room: 
Main Room 406
Session Track: 
Theming, Design, Usability
Difficulty: 
Intermediate

D7's admin interface is a dramatic improvement over D6, but when a content administrator that is new to Drupal is placed in front of the drupal admin area they get quite confused. There's always a learning curve to managing a site, but as Drupal site builders we can smooth things out a little.

I was thinking about preparing a presentation about what can be done to make Drupal 7 as easy to use as possible for content administrators and other non-developer users. Lots of stuff to talk about - Views in Admin Area, Media Management, Rules, etc. Finally there's building the site with the features module so you don't have to do all this work from scratch each time.

- We'll review a case study of http://olympuspacific.com which we recently applied a major overhaul of their admin area

- Cover many many examples of "there's a module for that" to help with specific use cases for different content editor tasks. (Mostly by creating custom views)