Planning and Managing Drupal Projects Drupal for Designers 1st Edition by Dani Nordin 9781449317102 1449317103

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• ISBN 10: 1449317103
• ISBN 13:9781449317102
• Author:Dani Nordin

Planning and Managing Drupal Projects
Drupal for Designers

Table contents:

1. Introduction
A Quick and Dirty Guide to DrupalSpeak™
Talking to Clients About Drupal
Organizing Your Files
Lifecycle of a Drupal Project
Implementation Plans: Breaking up your work
2. Setting the Stage: Discovery and User Experience
Breaking Down the Project Goals
Project Discovery
A further note on documents
Framing the Design Challenge
Getting Your Hands Dirty with UX
User Experience: Bringing UX Design to an embedded team
Study the organization you’re working with
It’s not about looks
Let go of the outcome
User Experience: Techniques for Drupal
Mind mapping
User personas
User Flows
Functional Breakdowns
Screen Sketches and Wireframes
Wireflows
Content Strategy Documents
UX Techniques and Drupal: Practical issues to hammer out
Go Deeper: User Experience and Project Management
Books
Websites
3. Fleshing Things Out: Getting ready to prototype
Working with content
Trial by fire
Working with Content Types: a High-Level Overview
Organizing your content
Putting this all together
Choosing modules
So many modules. How do I choose?
Go-to modules
Pathauto (drupal.org/project/pathauto)
Views (drupal.org/project/views)
Block Class (drupal.org/block_class)
Webform (drupal.org/project/webform)
WYSIWYG (drupal.org/project/wysiwyg)
Mollom (drupal.org/project/mollom)
Oh-So-Nice to Have Modules
Field Group (drupal.org/project/field_group)
Link (drupal.org/project/link)
Media (drupal.org/project/media)
References (drupal.org/project/references)
View Reference (drupal.org/project/viewreference)
Block Reference (drupal.org/project/block_reference)
Submitagain (drupal.org/project/submitagain)
No, I don’t need this, but ooh, it’s perty! Modules
Views Slideshow (drupal.org/project/views_slideshow)
Colorbox (drupal.org/project/colorbox)
User Points (drupal.org/project/userpoints)
A completely incomplete listing
4. Working with Clients
Proposing and Estimating Projects
Pre-proposal discovery: what you need to know
Pricing a project: Fixed-Bid versus hourly
Writing the proposal
Getting clients to love you, even when you have to tell them “no” (and what to do if they don’t)
That’s easy for you to say…
The “Professional Relationship” clause
After the Handoff: The project retrospective
Including clients in the retrospective
Documenting what you learned
Documenting for the community
A. Project Brief
Hey there! It’s nice to meet you.
Who are you?
About your project
Background
Goals and Objectives
Target Audience
Competition
Brand attributes
Functionality and Technical Requirements
For all projects:
For print projects:
For web projects:
Time and money
Thanks again!
B. Work Agreement (with Professional Relationship Clause)
Work Agreement
Terms and Conditions
Payment Notes
Payment Notes:
Professional Relationship
Deliverables Timeframe
Additional Terms
Rejection/Cancellation of Project
Modifications
Ownership of Artwork
Reproduction of Work
Author’s Alterations (AA’s)
Proofs
Completion/Delivery of Project
Releases
Limitation of Liability
Warranty of Originality
C. Project Proposal
Project Proposal
Section 1.0: Project Background and Objectives
Objective 1: Build upon the history of the Founder’s experience with her prior firms to effectively position The Consulting Firm as a leader in environmental compliance information and consulting for technology products.
Objective 2: Create a blogging and social media engagement strategy that allows The Founder to more firmly establish thought leadership in the field.
Objective 3: Create a website that will serve as a marketing vehicle for The Consulting Firm, and integrate The Founder’s content leadership efforts.
Section 2.0: Statement of Work
Brand Messaging and Positioning Strategy
Blogging, Social Media and Content Strategy
Logo and website development
Client Responsibilities
Section 3.0: Development Process
Phase I: Strategy, Goal-setting, Requirements & Research
Phase II: Creative Exploration & Design Development
Phase III: Implementation and Testing
Phase VI: Measure and Refine
Section 4.0: Budget Estimate
Section 5.0: the zen kitchen Background & Capabilities
Section 5.1 Who is the zen kitchen?
Section 5.2 What can the zen kitchen do for you?
Section 5.3 Why choose the zen kitchen?
6.0 Terms and Conditions
Payment Notes
Payment Notes:
Professional Relationship:
Deliverables Timeframe
Additional Terms
Rejection/Cancellation of Project
Modifications
Ownership of Artwork
Reproduction of Work
Author’s Alterations (AA’s)
Proofs
Completion/Delivery of Project
Releases
Limitation of Liability
Warranty of Originality

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