Description
Drupal is more than a content management system. It is a powerful data management framework with the flexibility to be shaped into just about any type of online experience your audience needs. In order to take advantage of this flexibility, you need to see beyond the web page and into the relationship between your site’s content and Drupal’s architecture.
Whether you are getting ready to build your own site or if you are a developer looking for some tools and techniques for collecting requirements and designing a solution, this workshop can help. The workshop, being led by the author of Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites, will offer interactive and hands-on activities designed to help you think through what you want and need from your Drupal site before diving into development.
Some site planning techniques can fall short when used to plan a Drupal site. For instance, the data you see on the page is not stored on the page, so planning and developing your Drupal site on a page-by-page basis can limit your site’s potential. The activities in this workshop are designed from a Drupal perspective. You will make decisions about site’s users, processes, content, features, layout, and more with Drupal in mind.
Bottom line, the activities will help you think in Drupal and harness its power by envisioning your site’s potential.
Course Goals
At the end of this workshop, participants should be able to
* see beyond the page into what it takes to make the page possible
* use various techniques to identify and organize site requirements and design for a Drupal site
This course will not cover the steps for building a Drupal site.
Topics
* Seeing beyond what's on the page
* Engaging your audience
* Defining your workflow
* Recognizing site page structures
* Analyzing content
* Defining site features
* Organizing site structure
* Identifying page layout strategies
Audience
The course is designed for those knew to planning content rich, dynamic sites using Drupal.
Course includes:
* A copy of Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites
* Course workbook
* Lunch
Cost: $250
Register at http://planningyoursite.eventbrite.com/