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Chapter 20 ■ Building a Company Site Summary In this chapter I covered the methodology for creating a new corporate website using Drupal 8, linking the methodology back to the steps covered throughout the rest of the book. The site created in this chapter may be the end-all website for a company, or it might represent the starting point for something much bigger. With Drupal, all things are possible and you are only limited by your imagination and the amount of time required to build your dreams. In the next chapter we’ll look at how to build a different kind of Drupal 8–based website, a community-based website using an off-the-shelf Drupal distribution, Drupal Commons. 230
Chapter 21 Building a Community Site The ability for people to assemble in online communities has exploded over the past several years. There are online communities for nearly everything you can think of—from technology (think Drupal!), sports (e.g., fans of a soccer club), and entertainment (e.g., enthusiasts of a particular music genre), to food, nutrition, boating, flying, hiking, endangered animals, and thousands of other topics for which there are groups of people who gather in a virtual community to share ideas, ask questions, set up events, and connect. There are online communities focused around individual products, groups of products, and companies. There are also online communities sponsored by companies to help guide and direct those who purchase their goods and services. The opportunities are limitless; all it takes is two or more people and an idea to launch an online community. Drupal is an excellent platform for building an online community, and the Drupal Commons distribution (www.drupal.org/project/commons) provides an off-the-shelf solution that fulfills a vast majority of the functional requirements for online communities. In this chapter I’ll create an online community site focused on those who want to learn about Drupal. You can follow along and build the same site as a learning exercise, or you can use the example as a guide to create your own community site. Requirements for a Community Site As always, the place to start when creating any website is to identify the requirements for the site. The requirements for a community site are relatively common across all types of online communities: 1. The capability to grow and create new subgroups organically within the community site. 2. The capability to publish content. 3. The capability to create and manage a wiki. 4. The capability to author and publish information about events. 5. The capability for users to create relationships and follow each other. Drupal Commons provides all of these capabilities as part of the base distribution. Installing Drupal Commons The first step in creating the corporate site is to install Drupal Commons. You can download the Drupal Commons distribution from www.drupal.org/project/commons. As with previous examples of installing Drupal, you’ll need to expand the tar or zip file in the appropriate directory on your web server (check your web server’s documentation for the directory in which a site should reside on your web server platform). 231
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