TD Cafe #018 - Drupal Site Templates

mean, I can start with that because I'm pretty passionate about it.

So a site template is basically a starting point for Drupal where it gets you going into a particular vertical very quickly.

So for those of you that are not familiar with Drupal, there's probably like zero of those listening to this podcast.

drupal has always started you off at very bare bones you don't you might have a it gives you a content type or two or at least it did and you have to theme it you have to do all this work just to get it uh looking good on uh for whatever you're doing you know um that the problem with that is it leads it leads to increased total cost of ownership for drupal so Drupal tends to cost more because people need to do all the setup, right? So a site template is kind of like a starting point.

So let's say I am a charter school or something like that, or any type of day school for kids.

Instead of going and setting up different content types for my teachers, different content types for my staff, event content types, and then having to spend like 50, 60 hours theming it to make it pretty, have a designer do some stuff.

Instead of doing all that, you can download, which may or may not cost money, a site template.

And the site template, you install it, and then boom, you're all set.

And the cool thing about site templates are it's Drupal.

So like, let's say you download a site template from Andy and my company, and it's not exactly what you need.

Well, that's totally cool because it's Drupal.

You can create an additional content type.

You can add another field.

You can delete stuff that you don't want.

And it's just basically a starting point.

How did that work for you guys? Yeah.

Yeah, I think maybe the other thing I'll sort of quickly add is if anybody has played around with Drupal CMS, they've probably already seen site templates because, you know, sort of that second step in the installer, as soon as you sort of say what name you want your site to have, the next step changes.

is it'll show you that kind of wall of the different templates, the little thumbnail with a description.

And those are all site templates.

And so that's exactly sort of like the concrete manifestation of what you're talking about as that, you know, choose your starting point and then go from there.

mean, I can start with that because I'm pretty passionate about it.

So a site template is basically a starting point for Drupal where it gets you going into a particular vertical very quickly.

So for those of you that are not familiar with Drupal, there's probably like zero of those listening to this podcast.

drupal has always started you off at very bare bones you don't you might have a it gives you a content type or two or at least it did and you have to theme it you have to do all this work just to get it uh looking good on uh for whatever you're doing you know um that the problem with that is it leads it leads to increased total cost of ownership for drupal so Drupal tends to cost more because people need to do all the setup, right? So a site template is kind of like a starting point.

So let's say I am a charter school or something like that, or any type of day school for kids.

Instead of going and setting up different content types for my teachers, different content types for my staff, event content types, and then having to spend like 50, 60 hours theming it to make it pretty, have a designer do some stuff.

Instead of doing all that, you can download, which may or may not cost money, a site template.

And the site template, you install it, and then boom, you're all set.

And the cool thing about site templates are it's Drupal.

So like, let's say you download a site template from Andy and my company, and it's not exactly what you need.

Well, that's totally cool because it's Drupal.

You can create an additional content type.

You can add another field.

You can delete stuff that you don't want.

And it's just basically a starting point.

How did that work for you guys? Yeah.

Yeah, I think maybe the other thing I'll sort of quickly add is if anybody has played around with Drupal CMS, they've probably already seen site templates because, you know, sort of that second step in the installer, as soon as you sort of say what name you want your site to have, the next step changes.

is it'll show you that kind of wall of the different templates, the little thumbnail with a description.

And those are all site templates.

And so that's exactly sort of like the concrete manifestation of what you're talking about as that, you know, choose your starting point and then go from there.