Talking Drupal #460 - Preconfigured CMS Solutions

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.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/460
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

TRY drupal

Design system

Front end editing

Guests

Christoph Breidert - 1xINTERNET breidert
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja
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:

Styled Google Map



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