Basics - building a site in Drupal 8

In order to have a site in Drupal 8 you need following:

1. a drupal 8 instance installed on a server,
2. theme, that drives the layout, look and feel, user interface of your site,
3. modules - to define how your site works, content delivery, 
4. and CONTENT, including images, documents, tables, files and any other formatted source

of course this is not a complete list, but a good starting point to start talking about issues I was facing with as a software engineer. Actually the above list would be valid for any other CMS, except that instead of "drupal 8" we would have words like Wordpress, Joomla, SDL Tridion, OpenCMS, etc. some other terms we could also replace, like "extensions" instead of "modules".

All these items have their own challenges, but first of all, I would like to focus on Content itself.

Content 

Some scenarios to think through:

• New content - there is no content available yet, you are building a new site, you need to think and type, upload what you need there, your goals, products,thoughts to share.
   
• Existing content - content, or part of it is available already, somewhere that you would like to reuse, to build your new site on top of it, or at least to have that content available in your new website. Content may be on an old website that you would like to replace, with a brand new, that is more SEO friendly, that looks extraordinary and fancy. It may happen that you have some content in some local files. You may have a few PDF's containing some important content that you would like to place as page, or blocks to your new site...OR you may have hundreds or thousands of such "files" or old pages online.

Next days and weeks I'm going to cover this last use case: efficiently reusing, migrating, at least partially, your existing content and build your new site on top of that.

I was involved into multiple site and content migration processes in last 12 years. I would like to put together and share some solutions, tools I built in past. These could be used to efficiently cover some content migration needs. I will continue building my own brand new content of this site I created to share with you the progress. I have some "old" codes, fragments that can be reused during my work. As an outcome I would like to provide you a "service" that could be used to automatically pull content into a Drupal 8, providing a user friendly user interface and all elements needed to have a site built in your Drupal 8 CMS. 

Regards,
Benke