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Site Building with Drupal

Dates: March 14th (5pm-10am, ~ hrs)
Instructor: Blake Lucchesi
Price: $490.00
Max Students: 24
Location: Rich Media Institute - Los Angeles - 525 Venezia Avenue, Venice, California, 90291 (map) Rich Media Institute - Toronto - 156 Augusta Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2L5 (map)

Description:

This course will give the basics of running Drupal websites, covering setup, installation, configuration, adding modules, creating and controlling custom content, and maintaining Drupal installations.

This session will go over how to build and architecture your new website with Drupal. We will start out by installing Drupal to a local web server, demonstrate where and how to install modules and themes; while touching on best practices in setting up your sites. Showing how to use common modules we will use core modules (like Taxonomy) with the CCK module to create custom content that is the foundation of our dynamic website. This course helps new Drupal adopters understand the basics of structuring their new site for easy publishing, maintainability, usability.

Who this course is for:

This course is designed for people who have a basic understanding of web development, like HTML, CSS, and have at least heard of PHP. If you're interested in getting up and running with Drupal principles then this is the course for you. All source will be handed out after the session.

Course Outline

Day 1:
Introduction to Drupal

    Getting Started with Drupal

    • Downloading and Installing Drupal
    • Drupal Terminology
    • Explaining content types - What is a node? What is a page? What is searchable?
    Introduction to Core Modules

    • Taxonomy
    • Search
    • Comment
    • Watchdog
    • User
    • Block
    • Configuring All The Important Modules
    Access control and how to secure your website

    • Default Roles
    • Adding Custom Roles & Permissions
    Downloading and installing modules and themes

    • Popular modules
    • Development modules that help

Day 2:

    CCK - Content Construction Kit: Custom Content Types

    • Explaining Custom Content Types & CCK
    • Making custom content types
    • Customize output
    • Customize Custom Fields
    • Theme template overrides
    Views

    • Explaining Views
    • Creating Views as Pages
    • Creating Views as Blocks
    • Using Views to override taxonomy pages
    • Setup role permissions on Views
    • Contributed views modules review
Computer Policy:

To keep prices this low, all training is bring-your-own-laptop (we provide power and wireless internet access).

Refund Policy:

Refunds are permitted prior to 14 days before the event, less a $25 administrative fee. Regrettably, due to venue capacity, we can not permit refunds within 14 days of the event.
All students receive an RMI Certification in this topic at the end of the course. RMI Certificate

All students receive an RMI Certification in this topic at the end of the course.

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