2 Day Drupal Basic Training in Long Beach in August
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group: Northern California
jbluto - Mon, 2008-07-07 04:04
We are hosting a 2 day basic Drupal training on August 16-17 2008. The training will take place at the Holiday Inn in Long Beach at the Long Beach Airport. The instructor will be Chris Charlton from L.A. Drupal. Space is limited to 30 participants. Lunch will be provided. Registration is $300 per person.
For more information and registration visit http://www.drupallearning.com
Syllabus will be available soon, we wanted to put out the date as soon as we could.
We know you are pretty far away from us, but we still wanted to put this out there to you. It would be cool to meet some Northern California Drupalers.
Thanks!
Jassen and Nicole Bluto
Syllabus for the Drupal 2 Day Basic Training
Instructor : Chris Charlton
http://chrischarlton.us
http://xtnd.us
Day 1 (6hrs)
What is Drupal and Why is Everyone Using It?
Drupal and Your Organization
What It Costs To Run, Develop, and Design a Drupal Site
Book and DVD Recommendations for Drupal
What is Drupal Core?
What are Drupal Modules?
What Version of Drupal To Use
What are Blocks in Drupal?
Themes for Drupal Sites
Demo: A New Drupal Site in Under 45 Minutes
Entering Content and Making Pages and a Blog (Overview and Demo)
Summary and Questions
Day 2 (6hrs)
Configuring a New Drupal Site (Technical Overview and Demo)
More About Drupal Modules
Demo: Installing a Free Module for Google Analytics
Demo: Installing a Free Module for SEO Sitemaps
Site Recipes and Installation Profiles
Demo: A Newer Drupal Site in Under 30 Minutes
User Management and Role Basics
Lightning Topic: Drupal Site Reports
Lightning Topic: Keeping Drupal Sites Updated
Final Basic Configurations & Performance Enhancements Built Into Drupal
Drupal Troubleshooting and Getting Help for Drupal
Questions
The instructor will be providing some handouts to all attendees. Please bring a USB portable drive or blank CD-R to take home the digital handouts and files.