This training is intended for anyone who wishes to know how to run a Drupal website. It does not require any prior knowledge of Drupal, nor HTML or anything at all.
The goal of this training: come clueless, and leave with all you need in order to install and configure a Drupal website.
Duration: approx. ~16 Hours, best when divided to more than two days.
The syllabus
- What is a CMS? What is a social site/network?
- Looking at a basic Drupal page – what does it include? (header, blocks, links, comments....)
- Basic Site configuration
- site-information
- Date and time
- Files uploads
- clean-urls
- site maintenance
- input formats
- Themes (concepts, switching)
- Content
- content submission
- creating new content types with CCK
- CCK add-ons and field types
- WYSIWYG in Drupal (currently teaching TinyMCE integration)
- Taxonomy
- Views
- working with media – images, audio, video
- searching for content
- Comments
- Users administration
- creating roles
- registration
- editing users' details and blocking users
- Site's structure
- Modules (choose, download, install, configure)
- Access Control
- Menus
- Blocks
- Installing Drupal
- Installing new modules and themes
- Helpful Drupal Resources
3/31/08 - ebrittwebb - Added #10. Helpful Drupal Resources