Drool.Drupal_tool.Site_management_and_rapid_theme_design mark B. movies opensource_movies 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 drupalconbarcelona2007 2007-09-28 09:13:30 2007-09-28 09:13:13 mark@indymedia.org mfb 2007-09-28 09:22:49 sound color 2007-09-28 09:57:32 mfb