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Build a Blog with Drupal 8 on the Day it's Released

By: Bob Kepford

June 4th, 2014

Bob Kepford

Senior Drupal Developer

@kepford

We help organizations build highly impactful, elegantly designed Drupal websites that achieve the strategic results you need.


Digital Strategy
  • Content Strategy
  • Content Generation
  • Result Metrics
  • Marketing Automation Integration
Design/Theming
  • Usability Testing
  • Responsive Design
  • Drupal Theming
  • Annotated Wireframes
Development
  • Drupal Support
  • Custom Module Development
  • Large Scale Systems Integration
  • Security & Performance Expertise

Drupal 8: What's New



  • New Fields
  • HTML 5
  • Better Content Editing
  • Display & Form Modes
  • Mobile
  • Views
  • Tour
  • Accessibility
  • Better Multi-language support
  • CMI
  • Web Services

HTML5

New Stuff!

Picture element

Support
 for responsive image displays

						

	
	
	
	
	
Accessible text

Date element

E-mail & Phone Elements

Placeholder Attribute

Fields

  • Comments are now fields
  • Entity Reference Field
  • Link Field
  • Email Field
  • Telephone Field

Content Editing

  • WYSIWYG out of the box! (CKEditor)
  • Insert inline images (with captions)
  • In-place editing
  • Improved publishing UX including Drafts!

WYSIWYG

In-place editing

Form & Field Display Changes

View (Display) Modes

  • Create and manage view modes for all entities
  • Includes form modes and view modes
  • Replaces Entity view modes module

Mobile

  • Responsive themes, images, and tables
  • Admin theme is mobile
 friendly
  • Mobile toolbar
  • Overlay is gone!

Views

Views in Core!


  • Most listings in core are now Views
  • JSON Feeds
  • The same Views you know and love

Improvements to Blocks

  • More hard-coded blocks are configurable.
  • One block can be placed in more than one region!
  • Custom block types

Tour!

Easily create tours for your site.

Configuration API

Full Export/Import

YAML

You Can Build Full Featured Sites with Drupal Core Alone



  • New Fields
  • HTML 5
  • Better Content Editing
  • Display & Form Modes
  • Mobile
  • Views
  • Tour
  • Accessibility
  • Better Multi-language support
  • CMI
  • Web Services

Resources

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