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Build a Blog with Drupal 8 onthe Day it's Released

By: Bob Kepford

June 4th, 2014

Bob KepfordSenior Drupal Developer

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Drupal 8: What's New

New FieldsHTML 5Better Content EditingDisplay & Form ModesMobile

ViewsTourAccessibilityBetter Multi-language supportCMIWeb Services

HTML5New Stuff!

Picture elementSupport for responsive image displays

<picture width="500" height="500"> <source media="(min-width: 45em)" src="large.jpg"> <source media="(min-width: 18em)" src="med.jpg"> <source src="small.jpg"> <img src="small.jpg" alt=""> <p>Accessible text</p></picture>

Date element

E-mail & Phone Elements

Placeholder Attribute

FieldsComments are now fieldsEntity Reference FieldLink FieldEmail FieldTelephone Field

Content EditingWYSIWYG out of the box! ( )Insert inline images (with captions)In-place editingImproved publishing UX including Drafts!

CKEditor

WYSIWYG

In-place editing

Form & Field Display Changes

View (Display) ModesCreate and manage view modes for all entitiesIncludes form modes and view modesReplaces Entity view modes module

MobileResponsive themes, images, and tablesAdmin theme is mobile friendlyMobile toolbarOverlay is gone!

ViewsViews in Core!

Most listings in core are now ViewsJSON FeedsThe same Views you know and love

Improvements to BlocksMore 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 FeaturedSites with Drupal Core Alone

New FieldsHTML 5Better Content EditingDisplay & Form ModesMobile

ViewsTourAccessibilityBetter Multi-language supportCMIWeb Services

ResourcesTutorial: Drupal 8 Site Building preview - Less is moreUltimate Guide to Drupal 8: Episode 3 - Site Builder ImprovementsMediacurrent's Drupal 8 seriesTheWeeklyDrop.com

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