This document provides an overview of Acquia Cloud Site Factory, which allows users to quickly launch Drupal sites, customize site templates, and centrally administer multiple sites. It discusses how Site Factory enables central user and site management. Site builders can use features, modules, and tools like Views to add content and media, customize layouts and designs, and create flexible content displays without code. The document promotes an online course for learning Site Factory techniques.

1. http://training.acquia.com
Building a Drupal Site with
Acquia Cloud Site Factory
Drupal Step-by-Step
http://training.acquia.com

2. Who is this for?
• New to Drupal?
• Technical background, previous CMS
experience and HTML/CSS understanding.
• Want to build a site you can duplicate and
iterate?
• Want to centrally manage hundreds of sites?

3. About me
• @learningdrupal
• Heather James,
Manager of Learning
Services
• Keen to hear your
questions and ideas!

4. What is Site Factory?

5. Site Factory
• Launch a site quickly
• Customize site
templates
• Administer centrally

6. High level overview
https://www.acquia.com/resources/acquia-tv/conference/how-master-multi-site-creation-
acquia-cloud-site-factory-august-14

7. Central site management

8. Central user management
• User accounts across
all of your network of
sites.

9. User roles
• Platform admin - Overall responsibility
for Acquia Cloud Site Factory deployment
• Site builder - Allows for website and
content creation and management.
• Two additional roles for PaaS subscribers - Developer
and Release engineer for managing custom code.

10. Site management
Use groups to organize sites.
Control management access to
sites.

11. Site creation
Choose from example features and
functionality to create your first
template.

12. Demo
Using Site Factory
Add a new site!

13. What does a Site Builder do?

14. You, the Site Builder
• High level functionality
• Information architecture -
Menu structures
• Page layouts
• Brand elements
• Visual design and themes
• Third party integrations
http://allnews.training.acsitefactory.com/

15. Site Building Tools

16. Site Building Tools

17. Differences v Drupal 7
1. Site Factory
Dashboard.
2. Configuration and
Features.
3. Additional modules.
4. The ThemeBuilder.

18. Quick demo
Quick tour of site building tools
(Drupal + Site Factory specific
tools)
Configure the site title.

19. Site Factory is Modular

20. Can Site Factory do X?
• The answer is probably a
module… PLUS
configuration
• Modules add
functionality
https://docs.acquia.com/site-factory/feature

21. Selecting Features
• Community
• Content display
• Content
• Developer resources
• Forms and ratings

22. Demo
Enable a module
Enable the webform module
Add a webform.
PaaS clients can add any custom
module!

23. Content management
Adding content and images

24. Content management

25. Media gallery

26. Flexible WYSIWYG

27. Extend basic content types

28. Demo
Add content
Add media to media gallery
Look at a custom content site

29. Site Layout
Placing blocks in regions

30. Blocks
• Blocks are what you
place on your site.
• You might have heard
of “widgets”

31. Regions
• Where to place
content and blocks
• Consistent across all
sites
• PaaS clients can add
their own themes

32. Demo
Create a “Twitter widget”
Add to the site.
Check out the regions!
Place in the sidebar region
https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new

33. Content lists
Using Views to filter, select and display

34. Views is a query builder

35. Views
• Select and filter any
data
• Users, comments,
terms/tags, content
• Display as list, table,
grid
• Access control

36. Flexible output
• HTML list, table, grid, pages, blocks, etc!

37. Views wizard

38. Selecting and filtering

39. How to format & display

40. More power to ya!
• Relationships (get data
from another table)
• Contextual filters (display
content by X person on
this page)
• Attachments, Access
settings and more

41. Demo
A Headline news display
A page
A block

42. Site Design

43. ThemeBuilder

44. Themes are flexible
• Classes to assist in
design

45. Demo
Tweaking the design
Change padding and margins
without code

46. Online course!
Learn more online

47. Take the full online course
http://training.acquia.com/track/acquia-product-courses

48. About the course
Step by step tutorials.
Demonstrations.
Learn essential techniques for
efficiency and flexibility.
http://training.acquia.com/course/site-building-site-factory

49. http://training.acquia.com/events