Spark: Authoring Experience++ in Drupal 7, 8, and Beyond
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The document discusses the authoring experience improvements in Drupal versions 7 and 8, presenting challenges and proposed features aimed at enhancing usability. It includes comparisons of functionalities between Drupal 7 and 8, highlights ongoing projects like Spark 2.0, and identifies key pain points for both content authors and site builders. The session encourages audience participation to gather ideas on further enhancing the Drupal authoring experience.
Spark: Authoring Experience++ in Drupal 7, 8, and Beyond
- 1. SPARK: AUTHORING EXPERIENCE++ IN DRUPAL 7, 8, AND BEYOND A N G I E “ @ W E B C H I C K ” B Y R O N Site Builder Track - Thursday, June 5, 2014
- 2. ABOUT ME
- 3. Agenda • Spark background info • Demo of D7 vs. D8 authoring experience • Tips on how to survive until D8 • What’s next? • With audience participation. :)
- 5. What is it?
- 7. The goal! Build kick-ass features for the current release of Drupal so people can use them now, and propose them for the next version of Drupal core to solve pain points in the product itself.
- 8. Our Approach
- 10. Technical strength 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sitecore CQ5 Plone Squiz Wordpress Joomla Drupal Open Text Drupal wins the technical decision...
- 11. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sitecore CQ5 Plone Squiz Wordpress Joomla Drupal Open Text ...but lags in authoring experience Technical strength Authoring experience
- 12. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 In-line editing Workflow Content staging Media management Layouts Localization Mobile authoring Ideal Pro Drupal How the Drupal authoring experience compares Drupal experience Ideal product
- 13. 1. Design • Run initial designs past internal team • Create clickable prototypes in InVision and/or HTML/CSS/JS • Do “hallway testing” on iPad, cell phones, etc. with both technical & non-technical users • Refine designs & share results with community
- 14. 2. Iterate++
- 15. 3. Argue a lot. ;)
- 16. What areas has Spark tackled so far?
- 17. WYSIWYG
- 18. In-Place Editing
- 21. Let’s see it in action!
- 23. Well that’s nice and all. But what about sites I’m building today?
- 24. Drupal 8 Core Feature Drupal 7 Contrib Equivalent WYSIWYG CKEditor https://drupal.org/project/ckeditor In-Place Editing Quick Edit https://drupal.org/project/quickedit Responsive Toolbar “Mobile Friendly Navigation Toolbar" https://drupal.org/project/navbar Responsive Front-End Theme Omega, Zen, Adaptive, etc. base themes Responsive Admin Theme Ember https://drupal.org/project/ember Responsive Images Picture https://drupal.org/project/picture Responsive Tables Responsive Tables https://drupal.org/project/responsive_tables Simplified Overlay Escape Admin https://drupal.org/project/escape_admin
- 25. What’s next?
- 26. Spark 2.0 • First, get Drupal 8 a lot closer to done (Focus of the team since Prague). • Then, take a fresh look at competition, current trends in authoring experience & site builder experience. • Next, pick the biggest pain points, build out prototypes to solve them in Drupal 8 contrib. • Spoiler alert: Media and Layouts are likely to rank. :P • Finally, propose those improvements for Drupal 8.1.x or Drupal 9.x (depending on scope).
- 28. Minimalist Authoring (The simplest thing that can possibly work)
- 29. Personalization (The right content for the right audience at the right time)
- 30. Contextual Site Building (In-place everything)
- 31. Your Ideas Here! :)
- 32. The following slides were created by a big, messy group “shouting and sorting” exercise. ;) Everyone in attendance (~80-100 people) at the session had 10 minutes to shout out whatever suggestions under the given topic, which were typed down on the slides, and then everyone got two “votes” (raising their hands). The results on the slides are ranked based on relative # of hands raised in a quick eyeball. Who needs science?
- 33. Biggest pain points in Drupal for content authors? • Previews! • Different body layouts: 3 columns, etc. • Bulk uploads • editorial workflow • Links / File links => Within page, other pages, etc. • Consistent content between pages — lock down fonts, headers • Menu items • Content model transparent / having to everywhere to edit everything • Revisions • File attachments: Desktop to WYSIWYG • Paste from word :) • “Zen” of admin themes for editors • Terminology: region/block/etc. — content editors don’t care. • Collaborative editing / Better integration with google docs
- 34. Biggest pain points in Drupal for site builders? • Point and click form design! • Roles/permissions admin • Taxonomy term management sanity :) / Workflow for taxonomy • Breadcrumbs • Content migration • Re-usable content that appears in different places • Exportable blocks with editable content • Better block visibilities • Simple bulk migration (Excel-style) • Display suite
- 35. Other projects to watch out for? • Ghost • Square Space (editing, theming tools) • Linkit • Site Core (content staging) • BrowserCMS (in-place editing) • GitHub (editing) • Impress Pages (linking structured data) • Craft • Disqus / Livefire
- 36. Thanks!
- 37. WHAT DID YOU THINK?E V A L U A T E T H I S S E S S I O N : A U S T I N 2 0 1 4 . D R U P A L . O R G / S C H E D U L E Thank you!