1. 15 Minutes from Design to Online
Preview of Drupal Gardens
15 Minutes from Design to Online
Linea Rowe Bryan House
Director, Product Management Sr. Director, Marketing
Acquia Acquia
@linearowe @bryanhouse

2. Housekeeping
Can you hear us? Raise your hand in G2W
Today’s webinar is being recorder and will be
posted in the next 24 hours at:
– http://acquia.com/community/resources/recorded_webinars
Submit questions via G2W, we’ll answer as many as
we can at end
–Give it a try & tell us where you dialing in from today

3. Upcoming Webinars
Thursday February 11th
–Preview of Drupal 7 with Dries Buytaert & Jeff Noyes
–**New webinar platform with Linux OS support**
Register Today - http://acquia.com/webinars

5. Until Now, Drupal is DIY
One path to create & operate Drupal sites
– Download binary
– Set up LAMP stack
– Install Drupal
– Find contrib modules to meet requirements
– Install contrib modules
– Build Drupal site
– Theme Drupal site
– Tune LAMP stack for performance
– Update Drupal application and LAMP stack

6. Implications of DIY
For superheroes only?

7. Drupal community
includes many
superheroes
1400 Drupal developers
DrupalCon DC
Washington, 2009

8. Grow Drupal by 100x
Superhero skills
need not be
required

9. When should you use
Drupal Gardens?

10. Match deployment choice to your:
- site requirements
- business requirements

11. Big sites => Drupal

12. Big sites => Drupal
Microsites =>
Drupal Gardens

13. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Rapid deployment
Hosted, managed service

14. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Many microsites

15. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Repeatable information
architecture

16. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Consistent
design elements

17. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Perishable sites

18. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Start small and grow

19. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Most importantly...
You need a service with:
nothing to install
no servers to update or manage

20. Who will use
Drupal Gardens?

21. Enterprises, Large and Small
Product launches
Marketing campaigns
Event promotion

22. Media & Entertainment Companies
Artist sites
Promotional campaigns

23. Government Agencies, Non-Pro t
Political campaigns
Rapid response

24. Higher Education Institutions
Departments, projects,
faculty sites

25. What Is Drupal Gardens?
Drupal 7, as a Service

26. What Is Drupal Gardens?
Library of themes
& templates

27. What Is Drupal Gardens?
Design. Build.
Clone.

28. Social publishing, made simple
ThemeBuilder
Integrated WYSWYG editor
Personal media library
Different layouts on every page
Tagging, vocabularies and metadata
Multi-user authoring

29. Socially Smart
User pro les
Supercharged blogging
Socially connected
Community enabled
RSS
Single sign on

30. Powerful
Role-based permissions
Con gurable content types
Custom CSS support
Export sites, no platform lock-in
Scalable, high performance
Up-to-date security

32. Let’s see a demo

33. On the Horizon
Manage site collections
Themes across sites
Sites con gurations
Multisite search
Analytics

34. Partner Program
Opportunities
–Design agencies
–Development partners
–Affiliate programs
Interested? Sign up @
http://www.drupalgardens.com/partners

35. Pricing
Drupal Gardens is free through end of 2010
Pricing plans at:
– http://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing
Enterprise packages available - call us

36. Drupal Gardens - Socially Smart Websites
Power of Drupal 7
Power of Drupal 7
Fully managed, hosted
social publishing service,
with an open source
Fully managed, hosted social publishing service
attitude
Enterprise microsites, campaigns, events and more
Enterprise microsites,
campaigns, community
sites, events and more

37. We’re Hiring?
Do you love working with Drupal?
If so, Acquia is hiring:
–Engineering & design
–Client advisors and consulting
–Inside sales
Check out openings at
http://acquia.com/careers

38. Questions
For more information, visit:
– http://drupalgardens.com
– http://acquia.com
– http://twitter.com/drupalgardens
– http://twitter.com/acquia
Contact us: Today’s webinar recording
will be posted at:
– sales@acquia.com http://acquia.com/community/resources/
recorded_webinars
– 888.9.ACQUIA
Sign up for Drupal Gardens
– http://signup.drupalgardens.com