What’s New on Drupal 8 for End-Users & Clients

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Something for Everyone to Love
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Hello!

• I am Mahesh Nattanmai
• Regional Director - Drupal Geeks
• You can find me at
• _at_njmahesh

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What is Drupal 8?

• Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal
  journey, and one that is substantially more
  powerful than previous versions.
• Drupal 8 provides new ways to tailor and deploy
  content that looks great on any device. However
  you work with Drupal, there is something in
  Drupal 8 for you to love.

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More than 2,200 people have contributed to Drupal
8 so far!
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Whats New on Drupal 8
for end-users clients
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Authoring improvement
WYSIWYG in Core
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Authoring experience
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Authoring improvement
In-place editing
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Authoring improvement
In-place editing
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Authoring improvement
New content creation page
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Authoring improvement
Preview on the frontend
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Its mobile-first
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Responsive themes, images, breakpoints
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Mobile-friendly administration
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Improved accessibility
Represent this with a video. Maybe from Dries
Prague slides? ) AB Submitted to the DA via
their webform, since unfortunately it has to be
on YouTube in order to reference from here. Bleh.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vipOc1km2uEc
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Mobile-first overlay
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Improved Data Modeling Tools
New field types like Entity Reference
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Improved Data Modeling Tools
New field types
Date/Datetime
plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!
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Restyled administration interface
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Multilingual improvements in Drupal 8
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HTML5 Form Elements
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Killed support for IE 6 7
(and most of 8)
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Configuration management
dev
stage
production
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Where do we need help?

• Finding and fixing bugs
• Performance
• Migration path
• Port contributed projects
• DOCUMENTATION!
• EXAMPLES!
• TOOLS!
• TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!

https//drupal.org/contribute
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Thanks!

• Any questions?
• You can find me at
• _at_njmahesh
• mahesh.nattanmai_at_ameexusa.com
• Visit website at, http//www.drupalgeeks.com/