Audience
Webmasters/copywriters/content editors: You’re already inputting content on a Drupal site or a CMS? You know the basics of the Drupal CMS, but you want to be able to configure it to your needs. Then this course is perfect for you.
Front-ender: You’re theming for Drupal and you’ve mostly worked with the template files? Get this training and learn how contributed modules can help you to alter and configure the layout of your site without touching code/template files. You will even learn to implement common features by adding a module and configuring it properly.
Project managers: As a project manager on Drupal projects it can be interesting to know what Drupal is and what its site building capabilities are. Learn how to use Drupal core and extend it: install modules and configure them to implement common features.
Sales: Are you selling web projects? You would like to sell Drupal projects? It could help to convince your client if you know Drupal and its functionality better. This course will show you how Drupal core can easily be extended with contributed modules.
Hobbyist: You’re playing around with drupal, but can’t seem to find all the right information. Even selecting good modules can be a problem. Well, this course will help you to develop site builder skills. Extend drupal by adding contributed modules and configuring them properly.
Professional (non-technical): Are you a professional outside the IT world. You work in an environment where they suddenly need a small website and you’re the volunteer that will need to make it happen? This course is perfect for you. This course will learn how to use drupal, extend it with modules and configure them accordingly without touching any code.
Value
You want to quickly build websites, by using the power of the contributed modules on drupal.org? This training will show you how to use contributed modules to provide common features on your drupal sites.
Learn how to build great sites, implementing common features without touching any code.
You’ll save a lot of time by following this course, not only will you learn how to install and configure modules, but we’ll tell you which ones to use. Selecting the wrong modules can jeopardize the future growth of your site. Learn how to pick the right drupal modules and how to configure them. Drupal modules selection can be very difficult, but it gets easier with a little help from your Dropsolid friends.
Figuring out how modules need to be configured can be really difficult, especially if those modules interact with other modules. We can teach you how to build and configure common functionality saving a lot of time figuring this out on your own.
We’ll also teach you the best practices so you will able to maintain what you have built.
Examples & Cases
Get on the right track with views
The powerful views module allows you to create lists of data. Knowing how to leverage this correctly can create accessible pages to your data on your website.
Building a small corporate website is very possible
Starting companies who want to save on their website by doing it themselves can use this course to know how to build a simple corporate website.
Contents
Fields - data modeling
When inserting content in Drupal this has to be done with entities and fields. We’ll explain how. Learn how to model your data correctly.
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Nodes
Nodes is the most used entity, especially for inserting content. How to create your own node types and adding extra fields?
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Users
Drupal works with users that can login. We’ll explain how this user object works.
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Files
What’s the best way to work with files in Drupal?
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Taxonomy
The taxonomy system in Drupal is very powerful, but do you master it? This part will show you how to use it and extend it with fields.
Views
This module is a must have for any Drupal installation, to make listings of your content. We will explain the best practices of using the Views module.
Web forms
Learn to use the Webform module and build your own web forms.
Media
Use the media module to manage all your media files.
Menus
This part will explain you how to use the menu system.
UI site building
Drupal has a lot of configuration options. By using these you can already build a nice website.
Gallery
Learn to make a gallery on your website.
Page components
An explanation of all the components that are used to build Drupal pages.
Slideshows
How to build a carrousel on your website?
WYSIWYG editor
Install a “What you see is what you get”-editor on your site.
Backend building
Extend the admin interface/back-end of your site.
SEO
Learn which modules can be used to improve you ranking in search engines.
Social
Today social networks are important. How to integrate with those?
Marketing
We’ll cover modules you can use for online marketing.
Basic search
Drupal contains a core search module. Learn to get the most out of it.
ROI
Saving projects before they start
Not knowing the right modules and how to create the right datastructure could result in really bad architecture. This could lead to a waste of valuable resources. Imagine having to repeat your efforts after a couple of days. Or worse imagine you being successful and you want to continue on your website but it’s a mess and your stuck with it. Taking a decent training course can save you this headache.
You’ll get an return on investment even if this is your only drupal project.
Don’t borther senior developers to explain a junior what a node is
Having your senior resources explain over and over again what a node is to your junior resources is just a waste of their time. Leave training your junior developers to the professionals at Dropsolid. Your senior developers can stay in the zone and stay productive all while you’re not risking a unguided junior jeopardize the quality of a project because he doesn’t know the basics. Image you need a senior to explain this to the junior and this takes him 3 days then your senior cannot work during this time. At a possible day rate of 600€, you’ll lose 1800€ just on this one junior developer. Having your junior developers not mess up your existing projects is difficult to calculate but it not only causes them to spend unwanted time, it also causes your Seniors to spend even more time making you loose even more money.
Spending some of a project budget on training your junior staff is not a bad idea. You’ll save thousands of euros in the course of just one project.