Acquia Accredited Drupal Training – Dublin – March 2013

DATE OF THE EVENT: 19.03 - 22.03.2013
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 22.03.2013
PARTICIPATION FEE : € 599 to € 1,199

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION: Experience with web development.
This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. Participants should have completed Drupal in a Day, or equivalent experience with Drupal.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

NOTE: This training consists of two separate 2-day Drupal trainings that can be easily combined to teach trainees a comprehensive set of skills for developing with Drupal. They can be attended combined or separately.

Drupal Site Building

Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites:
Experience with web development.
This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. Participants should have completed Drupal in a Day, or equivalent experience with Drupal.

You should be able to:
Navigate the administration area to manage essential tasks
Configure and set up a basic Drupal site.
Install and configure modules.
Manage user roles and accounts.

By the end of this Drupal training, you will be able to:
Build complex and powerful functionality.
Articulate best practices of site building with Drupal.
Configure both controlled vocabularies and free tagging with Taxonomy.
Manage navigation through Drupalʼs menu system.
Configure your site to improve search, through the use of URL path configuration.
Be able to configure automatically generated thumbnails.
Know how to create advanced listings of content.

Drupal Layout and Theming

In this two day course, you’ll learn a variety of approaches to making dynamic layouts in Drupal, and how to choose the right approach for your site. You will learn techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for your site, then you’ll learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal. By the end of the course, you’ll know how to save yourself time in making easy to configure, responsive and smart layouts. You will also understand best practices in making your site secure and fast, and easy to maintain.

Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites:
Required site building skills are outlined on our Drupal in a Day and Site Building course descriptions.
Familiarity with HTML and CSS is required.
PHP is not required.

By the end of this Drupal training, you will be able to:
Create custom layouts for landing pages on your site.
Make content appear dynamically based on where you are in the site structure.
Change the look of sections on your site.
Create a custom theme in Drupal.
Learn the essential PHP you need to make a theme in Drupal.
Best practices for sustainable theming.

You can sign up for the Site building and / or the Theming training through Amiando: http://www.amiando.com/drupal-training-dublin-march-2013.html