Drupal Intermediate Course in Durban

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

About Drupal Intermediate Training
Drupal is one of the best and most popular ways to build a website. It is flexible, scalable and is continuously improved by thousands of people around the world.

Drupal powers some of the largest sites on the web and is being widely adopted by organizations from small businesses to the White House and leading U.S. government agencies and companies such as eBay, Sony and the New York Stock Exchange.

Our Drupal Intermediate Class is aimed at increasing the skills of people who will be building and maintaining Drupal sites. You will learn how to use three of the most important Drupal tools: Fields, Views and Panels.

Subjects Taught
You'll build on your Drupal knowledge and get to grips with how to modify, improve and develop great Drupal websites. The class will focus on Drupal 7 but questions are welcome on other versions.

Topics
Part 1: An introduction to the Drupal workflow for building a complete, advanced sites
Part 2: An introduction to Fields and how they add data and functionality to Drupal content
Part 3: Building more advanced Drupal content with Fields, together with additional modules
Part 4: An introduction to the Views module and examples of how it sorts and organizes your Drupal data
Part 5: Building more advanced Drupal layouts with Views, together with additional modules
Part 6: An introduction to the Panels module and drag-and-drop, code-free design for your Drupal pages
Part 7: Building a practice site, uniting everything the student has learned about Fields, Views and design

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?
The class is taught by an experienced Drupal instructor who will teach you the essentials of building more advanced sites through the use of Fields, Views and Panels.
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.
Because learning is a continual process, all students will not only go home with a book that reinforces the concepts covered in class, they also get six months of access to our online training videos and online support forum.

Are There Any Prerequisites?
To get the most out of this class, you'll need a good basic knowledge of Drupal. Do you know how to create content and use roles? Do you know how to install themes and modules?

Our Drupal Beginner class is designed to prepare you for the Intermediate class, so if you've taken the Beginner class or will be taking it before the Intermediate class, you'd be ready to take the Intermediate.

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

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