This event is going to be an all day, free training event on May 14th, 2014 in one of UMN's excellent active learning classrooms. We're going to introduce the core building blocks in Drupal, provide information about local Drupal service providers, and introduce the local Twin Cities DUG and other ways to get involved with Drupal.
Learn how to build your first Drupal website from the ground up through interactive, lecture-based instruction and practical real-world examples. A full day training consisting of progressive beginner topics in the morning (content creation, content types, fields & views) followed by mentored advanced topics and feature building in the afternoon.
This event is geared towards those who are unfamiliar with Drupal and would like to learn how to build their first website from the ground up; however all are welcome to attend and learn best practices or refamiliarize themselves.
Agenda:
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Introductions and getting to know the people who are attending.
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Discuss what Drupal is and what it can be used for by showing case studies, real world examples, and polling the audience.
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Lectures and mentored exercises to go through the steps of creating your first website in Drupal.
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Introduce the audience to some leaders in the community and discuss the various opportunities to get connected with the local and online Drupal community at large.
