Designing with Drupal

Learn how to design for Drupal and with Drupal.

To help experienced designers understand how Drupal works and plan efficient, sustainable sites.

Schedule: 3 days onsite to get ready to design for Drupal

Day 1 - Site building in 1 day if the team has prior experience.
Day 2 & 3 - Drupal Layout and Theming. We can also tailor this agenda with an introduction to Panels, if your team is using that method for page layout.

Who it's for: Experienced designers or front end developers who are new to Drupal, know HTML & CSS, and have some experience with other CMSs. No knowledge of PHP required.

What’s Covered: How to design for Drupal, how to plan structured content and configure output.

Benefits: Help your team plan sustainable and efficient designs in Drupal.

Drupal Site Building

In two days, participants will be brought up to speed on Drupal and will be ready to tackle their own project. Learn how to manage media, build calendars and complex, dynamic queries of content by selecting and configuring the most popular modules.

Drupal Layout and Theming

In this two day course you'll learn a variety of approaches to making dynamic layouts in Drupal, and how to choose the right approach for your site. You will learn techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for your site, then you'll learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.

By the end of the course, you'll know how to save yourself time in making easy to configure, responsive and smart layouts. You will also understand best practices in making your site secure and fast, and easy to maintain.

Drupal 7 Panels

Learn how to use a flexible system to control what displays on your site and where through configuration. Learn how to configure per-page or per-section layouts; or set up custom layouts for anonymous or selected roles; and control where content is displayed.