Drupal Site Building - Drupal Training Curriculum for Drupal Companies

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Drupal Site Building

This is the course on 'how to' guide for implementing business functionality and features into your Drupal site.

Learning Objectives

Trainee will be able to create a Drupal website without writing a single line of code, using configuration. Get an idea on Drupal terminologies, Content types, Modules, Themes, etc.

Course Content

1. Folder structure

It is important to understand the folder structure of Drupal before beginning the development. There is a slight difference between the structure of version 7 and 8.
https://www.drupal.org/node/2621480
https://www.drupal.org/node/1443420
http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/84811/what-are-all-the-directo...

2. Post install configurations

Once the installation is complete, it is the time to customize the site as per the requirement. Major points to consider are :
1) Site Name
2) Site Logo
3) Users
4) Permissions
5) Blocks
6) Contents.
7) Check whether the 'files' directory is accessible by the web server.
https://www.drupal.org/node/394704

3. Basic terminologies

Most of the terms in Drupal are daily using terms, may be with small changes in meaning.
More read here
https://drupalcloud.mit.edu/help/frequently-asked-questions-about-drupal...
https://www.drupal.org/glossary

4. What is Module, how to install?

Modules are packages of code that extend or enhance Drupal core to add additional (or alternate) functionality and features.
http://sharonkrossa.com/drupallets/modules101
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install/modules-themes/modules-7

5. What is Theme, how to install?

A theme is a collection of files that define the presentation layer
https://www.drupal.org/node/171194
https://www.drupal.org/getting-started/install-contrib/themes

6. Drupal Database structure

All the configuration changes are saved in database. For a developer, it is important to know the structure of drupal database.
https://www.drupal.org/node/1785994
https://www.drupal.org/node/2360815

7. Blocks, Regions - Basics

Blocks are the boxes of content (such as "User Login" or "Who's online") that can be displayed in regions (such as footer or sidebar) on web page.
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/block

Reference

http://buildamodule.com/collection/build-your-first-drupal-7-web-site

Exercise

Exercise on a simple Drupal instance creation with Pages, Roles, Permissions and exercise on multi user Blog

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