Drupal Training in Toronto/Mississauga area?

Posted by jennyhu on March 22, 2011 at 6:32pm

Hi guys,

First time posting here, so let me know if this is the wrong place for this discussion. We are looking to get trained in Drupal as soon as possible as we are going to adopt Drupal at the place I work. Can anyone recommend a good training provider for system administrator and developer? From your experience, what's the best way to ramp up on Drupal?

Thank you very much in advance.

Jenny

Comments

Ramping up in Drupal

Posted by jeremylichtman on March 22, 2011 at 6:59pm

Hi Jenny,

There's no substitute for just diving in and working with Drupal. I didn't "get" Drupal until I had played around with an installation, particularly fiddling around with things like views. I really didn't become good at Drupal until I started diving into the actual code base to see how it worked behind the scenes, and taking apart contributed modules.

That said, the first step is probably to get a beginner's book online, and to look at some of the nice free online video tutorials that are available. After that, you'll probably want to set up a demo site somewhere, where people can play around with features and install modules.

Regards,

Jeremy Lichtman

Learning Drupal

Posted by HJulien on March 22, 2011 at 7:37pm

The best book I've found for learning the basics and more is called 'Using Drupal'. Published in 2009 by some of the best Drupal experts: Angela (Angie) Byron, Addison Berry, Nathan Haug, Jeff Eaton, James Walker and Jeff Robbins. You can follow it step-by-step as you build functionality into your project. It uses Drupal 6.

Another great resource is lullabot.com videos for a modest fee and very basic but free are videos by learnbythedrop.com. You can find many of the learnbythedrop.com videos on YouTube.

Another possible option is to contact lullabot.com and pay them to provide you with a training course. If you do this, please invite me to listen in as I'd love to learn more too. With Lullabot, you're learning from the best.

Just a note that the Using

Posted by deviantintegral on March 22, 2011 at 7:49pm

Just a note that the Using Drupal ebook is on sale today as a fundraiser for Japan disaster relief. Just use "DDJPN" when checking out: http://oreilly.com/store/dd-jpn.html

In Person Drupal Training Coming to TORONTO this spring!

Posted by Annabella on March 22, 2011 at 8:26pm

Hi Jenny (and the GTA Drupal Community!)

I wanted to reach out to you as we will be offering in person Drupal Training in Toronto in the very near future (like mid-end of April).

Please check out http://www.drupalschoolhouse.ca/courses

We have been offering Drupal Training at our school http://www.vsbt.ca in Victoria for over 5 years and offer Drupal Diplomas! Our parent company is northStudio (http://www.northStudio.com) and we have been in business for 11 years and have built hundreds of Drupal sites since 2005

Please contact me directly for more info (anne@northStudio.com) regarding dates/location/price

Upcoming Courses to be offered in Toronto:
Drupal in a Day:
http://www.drupalschoolhouse.ca/courses/drupal-day

Drupal Site Builders:
http://www.drupalschoolhouse.ca/courses/beginning-drupal-site-builders-c...

Intro to Drupal Theming:
http://www.drupalschoolhouse.ca/courses/intro-drupal-theming-course

Module Development:
http://www.drupalschoolhouse.ca/courses/drupal-module-development-course

If anyone else in the Drupal Community is interested in attending these courses, please also contact me directly for more details.

Kind regards,
Anne
anne@northStudio.com
1.800.215.6702
@anneaconda