Get into Drupal - 13th September, 2013
Drupal Training Scotland presents 'Get into Drupal', an introductory two-track training event aimed at anyone interested in building a website with Drupal. Whether you want to learn about theming, site building or using modules our beginner training will kickstart your journey towards Drupal excellency.
Location: IET Glasgow: Teacher Building, 14 St Enoch Square, Glasgow, G1 4DB http://teacherbuilding.theiet.org/
Cost: £95
Track 1: Making Drupal beautiful
This one-day course will show you how to convert your designs into a living, breathing Drupal theme with maximum efficiency. If you have a knowledge of html, css and javascript and want to learn how to gain fine-grained control over Drupal’s frontend, then this course is ideally suited to you.
Course Outline:
- Anatomy of a Theme
- The .info file
- Including CSS
- Including external and custom Javascript
- Regions
- Using a base theme
- Extending Twitter Bootstrap
- Applying themes to pages, nodes, and blocks
- Views templates
- Managing
- Introduction to theme_hooks
Course freebie: A ring-bound coursebook
Track 2: Drupal Site Building for Absolute Beginners
Learn how to build your own bells-and-whistle website without touching a line of code. By the end of this course you will know how to use various Drupal modules to create fabulous features and non-standard layouts for your website. The only requirement for this course is a strong desire to build amazing websites with Drupal.
Course Outline:
- Essential & Helpful Modules
- Creating and Managing Content types
- The Menu System
- Using Blocks
- Creating content
- Setting up a Homepage
- Using Views
- Configuring Search
- Introduction to Forms
- Managing Users
Course freebie: A ring-bound coursebook
Get into Drupal Trainers
The training event will be presented by Diarmuid Simpson and Paul Linney. Diarmuid and Paul are active members of the Drupal community helping to promote the use of Drupal through Scotland, they also contribute to the Drupal community through talks and module development.
Diarmuid and Paul have over 7 years of Drupal theming and development experience, creating websites and web applications for clients and agencies.
Registration
Please visit http://www.getintodrupal.co.uk to register for the training day
Regards,
Paul