Drupal in a Day will be an overview of creating a Drupal site from start to finish. Participants will start with a blank website and, already having seen the final site, will start with adding and managing users, creating user profiles, adding custom content, and managing that content (including turning on and off comments, or setting comments to read-only). Participants will then create custom content types and look at views to display this content in various parts throughout the site, including custom blocks and list pages, such as a blogroll, the last five images added, or the latest blog posts added to the site.
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. Those who are looking for an in-depth Drupal site-building training should additionally purchase the Drupal for Site Builders course.
Fee includes lunch and materials.
Learning Goals
•Managing content, navigation and taxonomy
•Extending Drupal through modules
•Understanding theming and modifying page layouts
•User management and permissions
•Modifying and creating content types
•CCK basics
•Simple views
Course Format
The course is a one day course with a mixture of lecture, demonstrations, exercises and workshop time.
Intended Audience
This course is for anyone wanting to become more familiar with how Drupal works. It is an introductory course suitable for people with little to no web experience such for owners, managers, marketers and webmasters. It is also ideal for web developers or people experienced with other CMSs, but no Drupal experience, who are needed to quickly get oriented to how Drupal works.
Prerequisites
Interest in learning about content management systems, no prior web development or Drupal skills are required. Understanding Content management & Drupal are helpful.
Additional Courses
Drupal for Site Builders directly builds upon the skills taught in this class providing a more in depth look at CCK, views and other popular site building modules.
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