When to NOT use Drupal

In this presentation, I discuss the difficult topic of when to NOT use Drupal. Many times, you hear people say "Yeah, Drupal can do that!". My challenge to people is to instead force yourself to say "Yeah, Drupal SHOULD do that!" and mean it. This presentation discusses when you SHOULD and SHOULD not use Drupal.

[tobiasmoller]

I like how streamlined your whole process is. Anyhow, for someone who is new, I think it is still good to go the long and hard way by doing everything by hand. After gaining knowledge it is totally fine to take the automated way.
Thx for your presentation!

[ZGod]

This is really useful. I never built a website before and I was asked to look into creating a brochure website. I considered Drupal as it has a lot of modules, but then ran into this video. Makes a lot of sense. Thanks a lot!

[raphaelcolboc]

Thanks for this interesting presentation !

[amadiraq]

man you just throw gold out of your mouth, big thumbs up

[khalidsweeseh]

Thanks, that was absolutely helpful, i was looking for the best web site builders, and Drupal was top of the list, when started playing with it, realized that this is basically built towards CMS

[JackNorthrup]

100% agree - I am retired and it still took too much time painfully slow. You SHOULD chop the first six minutes

[ParkRoadGuy]

Every Drupal Dev should watch this video once. I've seen too many overly engineered brochure sites that could be much more maintainable with a non-Drupal framework.

[VictoriaClare]

This is a good subject, but like so many Youtube videos of presentations, it's painfully slow. You could chop the first six minutes off this, replace with one slide that goes 'I'm not hating on Drupal but it's not for every job' then go into 'what Drupal is good at'. and it would be a better presentation AND a better video.

[RockstahRolln]

Really interesting feedback and terrific info, I subbed!

[cjtvtube]

I'm a "Drupal Fanatic" but even I realize that... sometimes (Yeah, sometimes) another system would fit the bill. However, I'm with "Nik LePage" below, if you know the system and basically almost build anything with it... why spin your wheels learning the never endless other systems that pop up... just stay with a great one! The "Framework" people complain about Drupal overhead but... seriously... what are we talking, microseconds differences? If you know what your doing with D7 + caching is hard to beat. Talk about... SLOW, how about the hacked together "Content Types" (oh, "Custom Post Types"), Fields and many other "Plugins" in WordPress that are Core in Drupal... Oops, got off topic, sorry:)

[johnnyLikeVideo]

How do you feel about this since Drupal 8 is now at 8.3? Same?

[nachocarballal]

Thank you for sharing this great presentation!

[JamesTsividis]

Thanks this is very informative as someone just starting out.

[safwan]

I have a love hate relation with drupal! I do 90% of my projects on drupal, but frankly as you stated that drupal is not for every use case. Symfony offers a cleaner framework in comparison though they are different species! Drupal is the best as far as the cms/cmf market is concerned, however for code management any cms/cmf has its limitation and drupal is the most flexible in comparison with other content management systems. I agree with you on this. Thank you for this vidoe

[victormendoza]

Where are the best how-to articles for nunjucks?

[MrMastercs]

Interesting purpose. I do the same ... differently ! One CMS is much more suitable for certain purposes, and other one for others. Argumental work has to be done !

[subgero]

Nowadays not all Brochure websites are static, customers need change texts and images easily

[travisparkinson]

+Travis Tidwell. The takeaway I got from this is that Drupal is great for creating document management systems and either inadequate or overkill for anything else, is that correct?

[VideoMenu]

This is exactly the sitting down and talking to that I needed. I have confirmed I *will* need Drupal to scale the site but I knew I may need NODE.js but shared hosting at the moment doesn't offer it (A2 hosting offers it, but they blew their chance by showing me their crappy chat service before I signed up, so I had to on principle NOT do business with them.) I'm going to have to scale first and then justify a proper expensive server to use NODE (unless there are valid alternatives to that tool).

edit: But based on the talk, I may be doing it backward if dude does NODE first and then builds around it. Oh, man. Why did A2 have to suck so hard? :(

[zaxx]

I am trying to choose a platform to use for offering programming courses and tutorials. I've been playing around with Drupal, however, it is driving me crazy trying to figure out how users can visually see what they have viewed in a course. Example if Intro to HTML has 10 sections and each section has reading, video lectures, and quizzes. However, I can't get Drupal to visually show the user which sections they have already completed. What are your thoughts on accomplishing that?