Introduction to Drupal

Introduction to Drupal online course
Course Name

Introduction to Drupal

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Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System written in PHP. With Drupal you can create a simple personal homepage, a company website, a blog, an ecommerce site, etc. Hundreds of modules are available for use with Drupal. You can create slide shows, events calendars, a contact form, product catalogs, polls or surveys, guestbook, a forum or blog, or newsletter signup. The possibilities are endless. Basically, there are no limits with Drupal, you really can make any type of website you want.

Applicable Job Roles: web developer, web designer, and web content manager.

Objectives for this class are:
  • Manual installation of Drupal on your web host
  • How to use the Administration pages (Content Management, Site Building, Permissions and Roles, etc.)
  • Building a navigation framework
  • The importance of modules in adding functionality to your site
  • How to find and install modules
  • Knowing how to change the design of your site with themes
  • Understanding how themes work behind the scenes
  • Knowing options on how to speed up your site
  • How to create custom content to store in your Drupal database using CCK
Outline
Week 1 - Getting Started with Drupal
  • Drupal is a CMS
  • Basic architecture of Drupal
  • Manual installation on a web server
  • Uses of Drupal
  • Troubleshooting
Week 2 - Administration and Site Maintenance
  • Understanding users, roles and permissions
  • Creating menus
  • What are nodes?
  • Managing URLs
  • Taxonomy overview
Week 3 - Modules
  • Themes and Blocks Explaining the module architecture.
  • Configuring the blog, poll, forum and webform modules Themes overview.
Week 4 - Content types and Views
  • How content works with Drupal
  • Creating custom content types
  • Adding new CCK modules: Date, Email and Link Using Views to display content
Week 5 - Themes
  • How themes work
  • Ways to create your own theme
  • Sub-theming with the Zen framework
Week 6 - Drupal Website
  • Creating a Drupal 7 site from scratch
Prerequisites
Good understanding of HTML. CSS and PHP knowledge would be helpful but not required.
Requirements
You must have an UNIX/LINUX web host account that supports PHP and has a MySQL database.
Course Books
No book is required for this class.
Suggested Book Drupal 7 Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide [
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Course Price
  • Member Price: $100 US
  • Non-Member Price: $200.00 US
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Additional Information:
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Additional Cost: Book and software migh be required for the course. Read the Requirements and Book section for more information. Course fee does not include the book and software cost .

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