Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi
Baddý Sonja Breidert – 1xINTERNET baddysonja Christoph Breidert – 1xINTERNET breidert
Topics
- Spain
- What is a Preconfigured CMS / Drupal Solution
- Who is the audience
- What business objectives can preconfigured solutions solve
- What are the ingredients
- How do you manage theming
- How do you manage customized design
- What do you do if your client has a need that your preconfigured solution does not solve
- What about Starshot
- Did the two of you meet over Drupal
- How do you manage work life balance
Resources
Guests
Today we are talking about Preconfigured CMS Solutions, How they can help your business, and The best way to build them in Drupal with guests Baddy Sonja Breidert and Dr. Christoph Breidert.
Hosts
For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/460
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to customize the way Google Maps appear on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2014 by iampuma, but recent releases are by Artem Dmitriiev (a.dmitriiev) of 1xINTERNET
- Versions available: 7.x-2.0, 8.x-1.7, and 8.x-2.6 versions available, the last of which works with Drupal 8, 9, 10, and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, latest release a week ago
- Security coverage
- Has a Documentation page and lots of information on the project page
- Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 1 of which is a bug against the current branch, though it was actually fixed in the latest release
- Usage stats:
- 1,764 sites
- Module features and usage
- The module provides allows your Drupal to use custom styles, which you can copy and paste from SnazzyMaps.com, or create from scratch using a configuration widget on Github that is linked from the project page
- You will be able to use custom markers by using the System Stream Wrapper module
- You can also specify popups for the markers, using a field or a view mode
- If you use the companion styled_google_views module, you can also show multiple locations, and define clustering options
- Styled Google Map also has integration with Google’s Directions service, so visitors can easily get turn-by-turn directions for how to reached their chosen location
- The module also includes a demo submodule you can use to quickly set up a working example to illustrate all the different options available using Styled Google Map
