What is Drupal? For large and complex websites, nothing beats it! Where do you start? What is the best way to organize your project to get the best chance of success? This workshop will help you turn your ideas into a concrete todo list — whether you're building the site yourself, handing it off to a developer to build, or something in-between.
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This is the perfect workshop for you if:
- You're new to using Drupal and need a jumpstart in planning a large project
- You're investigating Drupal's viability for your next project
- You're wondering whether to invest time in learning Drupal
- You don't have the time to learn Drupal but will be involved in a Drupal project
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Seating is limited. You'll have access to the experts at Exaltation of Larks — a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company in Los Angeles — learn about Drupal and have a fun day! Sign up now at http://www.larks.la/training
What to Bring
This is a lunch and learn-style workshop. Come during lunch and learn about Drupal! You don't need to bring a computer. Bring lunch!
This workshop is a fundraiser for Droplabs, where you can come and find help and resources for your Drupal project and cowork for free. You can donate cash at the time of the workshop, or conveniently pay using Paypal or Dwolla at http://droplabs.net
Suggested donation: $45.
No one will be turned away from this workshop. If you are unable to donate we ask that you volunteer some time helping Droplabs run more smoothly when you drop by and cowork.
Classroom space is limited, so please sign up early.
Prerequisites
- An active interest in learning about Drupal
- A basic understanding of the Internet and familiarity with how websites function
- A conceptual understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS), HTML and CSS is beneficial (but not required)
What we've covered in the past based on the interest of our attendees
- When and why to use Drupal
- Considerations when starting a Drupal project and how to organize your project
- The basics of Drupal, from content management to membership ("user") management
- An introduction to databases and queries
- How to organize your site using Drupal Content Types, Taxonomy and Views
- How to turn ideas for features and functionality into achievable tasks using user stories and use cases
- Which tasks are crucial for a successful Drupal website and how to organize them
- How to choose the right Drupal version and modules for your project
- The basics of web hosting and getting Drupal running on your own computer
- How to connect with the Drupal community, its meetups, conferences and job fairs and online discussion forums and chat rooms
General Outline
Hour 1:
- What is Drupal?
- Terminology
- Pages — it's a metaphor
- Blocks
- Regions
- Themes
- Users
- UID / usernames
- Roles
- Permissions
- Functionality
- Modules
- Drupal core vs. modules
- Popular modules
- Views
- Navigation - Menus
- Taxonomy
- Best Practices
Hour 2:
- Organizing your Drupal site
- Wireframes? Not at first.
- User Stories - think in workflows. This is dynamic!
- Design thinking
- Lifecycle of a site build
- Site definition and discovery
- Project plan
- Agile development
- MVP
- Organizing your todo list
- User stories
- Content types
- Views
- Other functionality
- Best Practices
- Where to get help
Hour 3:
- Hosting
- Deployment strategies
- Backup Strategies
- Running your Business on Drupal
Comments
We'll be offering a mentored training
We'll be offering a mentored training at the same time next door during Drupal Coworking Friday:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/269313
If this sounds interesting, stay tuned for an event announcement, sign up for our training mailing list at http://www.larks.la/training or Droplabs' event mailing list at http://droplabs.net/newsletter
What's the difference between this 3-hour lunch-and-learn and the mentored training? This 3-hour workshop is geared toward business owners and project managers. The mentored training is better suited for folks who are interested in diving a deeper into Drupal's systems and APIs, module or theme development or using popular contributed modules (e.g. Views, Rules, Features, etc.) for site building.
The event announcement for
The event announcement for this Friday's mentored training has been posted:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/273063
Just like this seminar-style workshop, the mentored training is a fundraiser for Droplabs and has a sliding scale donation.
No one will be turned away from either workshop. If you're unable to donate to Droplabs we ask that you volunteer some time helping Droplabs run more smoothly when you drop by and cowork.