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mark B.[DrupalCon Barcelona 2007] Drool (Drupal tool): Site management and rapid theme design

This session will be presented by Nick Blundell and Matthew Shepherd from Illuminate ICT , a UK non-profit organisation that provides low-cost Drupal website design and hosting to the community, voluntary and non-profit sector, and will focus on the use of a newly developed (about to be released) open source command-line tool called drool (drupal tool).

drool automates the mundane tasks of managing Drupal websites on a server and also offers a few more novel features, which include:

* Creating new sites

* Installing modules and themes directly from drupal.org

* Hosting multiple Drupal versions

* Cloning one drupal site to another - handy when you don't want to start a site from scratch.

* Packing up whole sites (e.g. configuration and data) into single file packages that can be shipped across and unpacked onto another server.

* Rapid theme design by automated skinning of images (i.e. chopping/slicing them up for css scaling) onto a special drool theme. For example, you can draw an image for a block, skin it; draw an image for the page, skin it; draw an image for the header/footer, skin it. By definition, the applied skins will stretch to hold dynamic content (e.g. a wide/narrow, long/short side-bar block/page/header/footer/user-specified regions).

In practice, the command looks something like this:

> drool new www.sitex.com

> drool clone www.anothersite.com www.sitex.com

> drool skin www.somesite.org.uk footer myfooterimage.png



Here are some examples of sites that we have developed with the help of drool:

http://www.illuminateweb.org.uk/sites_with_testimonials

http://www.illuminateweb.org.uk/other_sites


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