Content Editor - Vienna 2013.key

Be friends with your content editor
Agenda
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Introduction
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Why should we care?
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What can we do?
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What about Drupal 8?
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Q&A
Introduction
http://bldn.gr/drupal_gmail
Why should we care?
The circle
Make some new friends!
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Don’t have much webexperience
Are easily confused and
lack of confidence
Perform tasks very slowly
and carefully
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Quick to learn new systems
Understand complex user
interfaces
Perform tasks quickly and
look for efficiencies
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Have a lot of other things
to do besides maintaining
the website
Log in once every other
month
They don’t remember how
the system works and will
give you a call.
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They use the CMS daily
They perform the same
tasks (like writing
blogposts) over and over
again
Get frustrated when the
system is inefficient or
doesn’t work as they
expect it
#1
Install contrib modules
http://bldn.gr/d7modules
Some examples
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Views bulk operation with Admin views
Administration menu
CKEditor
LinkIt
Admin theme „Shiny“
Media
Scheduler
Core
Admin Views
Can be adapted
Toolbar
Admin Menu
Core
CKEditor
Link field
with LinkIt
Seven
Shiny
Core
Scheduler
Core
Login Destination
#2
Improve the flow and ask
questions
apply common sense
create order
check workflows
group
remove
train
#3
Naming
#4
Help Texts
Write good help texts
Good help texts should:
describe where the field output will appear
answer any obvious questions
list any limitations or requirements
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Bad help text:
is often worse than no help text
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Bad
Good
Good
Help texts can reveal issues!
Create integrated manuals
#5
Contextual Links
You built it, you try it!
You built it, your team tests it!
Wrap up
#1 Contrib modules
#2 Workflow
#3 Naming
#4 Help texts
#5 Contextual links
What about Drupal 8?
Questions?
@borisbaldinger
[email protected]
Thanks to Pamela Barone that I could use her storyline
@pameeela