Ottawa

Responsive design is an important aspect of any website. As more and more users browse websites on mobile and tablet devices, we need to make sure that our designs work well at any screen size. This can be a huge challenge to implement, and requires a new set of skills for designers and themers.

In this training, you'll learn design and implementation best practices for responsive design. We'll walk through how to create a responsive theme from scratch, and using a base theme. You'll also learn how to use Compass and Sass, powerful tools for making your CSS more effective.

Get a solid introduction to Drupal 7 in one day. Learn about the most essential features and concepts of Drupal through hands on activities. By the end of this day you will be familiar with Drupal terminology and be able to identify how many Drupal sites are constructed. You will know how to identify and choose modules to get the functionality you need.

Because this class will be an overview and not an in-depth course, it is perfect for people who are on the fence about using Drupal or who are looking for a hands-on introduction.

Drupal is a powerful content management system, and the Web Experience Toolkit distribution is a version of Drupal that has been customized for organizations with strict accessibility and bilingual requirements. It's widely used by the Government of Canada.

In this training, you'll get an overview of the most important features of the Web Experience Toolkit distribution of Drupal. The training will include hands-on exercises to lead you through essential site administrative tasks. You'll also get an understanding of the more advanced features.

You know how to make flexible content types, how to structure your site with custom paths and menus, and how to create dynamic lists of content with Drupal. And yet - you've found the limitations of the core block system to place the content on your site. Now you want to know how you can get control of where content is placed in your page structure. Drupal has a variety of approaches to making dynamic layouts, and in this course you will see how to use them, and find the right approach for you.

Drupal is a modular, open source web content management framework that ships with basic functionality in the form of core modules. For the most part, you add new functionality with third party modules (known as contributed modules) that can be downloaded from Drupal.org. At some point you may find limitations. You may want to modify functionality in a contributed module or core. You may want to move your configuration to code, or access an external data source.

The City of Ottawa has generously offered to make space available for a one day code and documentation sprint to coincide with the global Sprint Weekend (http://groups.drupal.org/node/277768).

Everyone is welcome to participate, from newbie to expert. All you need is a laptop and a willingness to share.

Please use the signup button so that we can get an idea of the number of attendees. The room will be announced here later.

We'll also use the @drupalcampott Twitter feed to provide updates.

Join us for Ottawa’s very first DrupalCamp! Registration is just $20 in advance ($25 at the door) and includes lunch, t-shirt and beverages. Get your tickets here.

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