Training

These are useful links for new developers to drupal.

This is a wiki page so feel free to add to it.

• Color Scheme Generator
• Drupal Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• Drupal Modules
• Lullabot Articles
• Lullabot Podcast
• Drupal Podcast No. 50: 50 Drupal Tips and Tricks

I pride myself on keeping current on Drupal news and especially on new Drupal modules. One way I do that is I read alot of RSS feeds daily. Every morning when I sit down to begin my day I start with reading my aggregated feeds on my website - http://www.hofmockel.org/aggregator/categories

• I find the Planet Drupal aggregated RSS feeds a little too inclusive - http://drupal.org/planet

Here is an export of my aggregator_feed table (Just the Drupal related ones). Of course you could just read it directly on my site if you like. But if you only read one make it the "New Module" list on Drupal.org - http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14/0

360 Drupal presentations on Slideshare.net
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=drupal&submit=post&commit=S...

I'm off to look at this one - http://www.slideshare.net/emmajane/moving-in-how-to-port-your-content-fr...

If you missed Drupalcon 08 or if you attended and missed a specific presentation here is your chance to catch up.
Many (46) of the presentations are now available on The Internet Archive.

What an awesome resource for free!

When I got the books for our one year party I was really struck by the desire to create a group library. I was then overwhelmed with the idea of having to continually track the books and make sure they are returned. Then Stephen reminded me that there is a perfectly good method for this already, the Ann Arbor District Library. Some of you may remember the talk that Eli gave to the group on the Libraries implementation of Drupal. What a awesomely perfect circle! And a quick search of the library catalogue shows no Drupal books. Every library should have Drupal books!

Drupal Podcast No. 50: 50 Drupal Tips and Tricks
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-50-drupal-tips-and-tricks

I did not have time to listen to the podcast but the attached list was super helpful. You should check it out!

Our next meeting will address the question, "Taxonomy - What is it and what can it do for me?"

I know our last meeting was just two nights ago. But it is clearly time for a discussion on taxonomy. Let's see if we can't get a discussion going before the meeting and set ourselves up to delve deep into taxonomy at our next meeting.

For simplicity sake, Ontology and Taxonomy are the same thing.

For those of us present last night for Michael's talk on Themeing... Saw this post http://groups.drupal.org/node/5804 and noted that it had a link to the free, downloadable chapter of the Pro Drupal Development book we discussed. Perhaps more importantly, there is a free online class/seminar you can sign up for on themeing taught by the author...

27Aug2007
Michael Hofmockel
Converting html/css web design to Drupal PHPTemplate theme.
Another example following the formula from Chapte 8 (The Theme System) from the "Pro Drupal Development" book.

Open Source Web Design - http://www.oswd.org/

Kinda Cloudy - http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3158

• Renamed index.html to page.tpl.php
• install theme in sites/test_site/themes/Kinda_Cloudy
• enable theme in admin

Every page is now the same and we are locked out of admin
CSS does not load yet

Following are links to training resources for beginners and experts alike.

SI505 - http://si505.cms.si.umich.edu/
- Customization and Configuration. Resources for a course at the University of Michigan taught by Paul Resnick.

Drupal Dojo - http://www.drupaldojo.com/
-A very active group sharing knowledge of Drupal. A great place to start!

Drupal
handbooks - http://drupal.org/handbooks
- official Drupal documentation
screenshots - http://drupal.org/image
-Installations, themes and site examples
videocasts - http://drupal.org/node/63155
- module mash-ups and solutions