Drupal Beginner Course in Durban

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Start: 
2012-11-08 08:00 - 2012-11-09 16:30 Africa/Johannesburg
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Event type: 
Training (free or commercial)

Venue: Durban, South Africa

About Drupal Beginner Training
Do you want to learn Drupal?
Do you want to learn how to run a Drupal site professionally?
Do you want to get your questions answered by Drupal experts?
Drupal Beginner Training is for you!

Subjects Taught
You'll learn how to build a Drupal website, from content and user organization, to working with modules and themes. The class will focus on Drupal 7 but questions are welcome on other versions.

Our teaching style is entirely hands-on. You'll have a Drupal site in front of you and will be actively working and learning throughout the class.

Topics
Part 1: Introduction to Drupal: What? Who? When? Why?
Part 2: Installing Drupal
Part 3: Navigating the Drupal interface
Part 4: Understanding Drupal content
Part 5: Managing Drupal content using content types
Part 6: Adding data fields to Drupal content
Part 7: Choosing and configuring modules
Part 8: Choosing and configuring themes
Part 9: Configuring and working with Drupal user permissions
Part 10: Building a full Drupal site so that students can practice everything they learned during the class

What Do Class Attendees Get to Help Their Learning?

Live Training
Practical, hands-on training from an experienced Drupal teacher

Forum Support
Six months of forum support with same-day answers to your questions

Workbook
A copy of The Drupal Workbook, a book version of the class

Videos
Six months of access to a video version of the class you take

Cheat Sheets
All the key information from the class in one useful guide

Completion certificate
A personalized completion certificate

Who Should Attend This Class?
Individuals wanting to learn Drupal best practices.
Business owners or employees responsible for their company's Drupal website.
Webdesigners looking to expand their service offerings by providing Drupal sites for clients.
Web Professionals looking to save time by learning from Drupal experts.

Are There Any Prerequisites?
There are no pre-requisites for the beginner class. We assume that all students in our beginner classes start with no Drupal experience.

Find out more at http://www.sling-shot.co.za/Drupal/drupal-beginner-training.html