Friday Sep 5: CCK, Views and Panels

The power of Drupal lies not only in its awesome core and API, but how this API can be extended to provide more functionality through useful modules.

Some of these tool function so well together that they allow one to create sites without writing any PHP code.

One such tool set is composed of the following Modules:

• CCK: the Content Construction Kit, allows defining fields and content types which are groups of fields.
• Views: Allows lists of nodes to be presented in various formats, and various criteria.
• Panels: Allows a combination of blocks to grouped into custom "section" pages.

This trio of tools allows someone who is not a developer/coder to create fairly complex web sites all from a web based interface.

In this presentation, Khalid Baheyeldin of 2bits.com, Inc. will walk through these tools and demonstrate, hands on, how sites can be built using this powerful trio.

See you all there ...