Site Building with Drupal 7 in SoHo (NY, NY)

In two days, participants will be brought up to speed on Drupal 7 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.

This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. Participants will also review Drupal's block system and using taxonomy to categorize their content.

In two days, participants will be brought up to speed on Drupal 7 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.

This course is suitable both for users who are new to Drupal and those who want to broaden their Drupal skills. Participants will also review Drupal's block system and using taxonomy to categorize their content.

Session 1: Introduction

What is Site Building?
Your client, GlobalTravel
Site configuration review - Prepare your site
Improve the developer experience
Professionalize your development workflow
Session Summary

Session 2: Designing and planning content

Planning content types
Create and plan content types
Add and customize fields
Add taxonomy field to categorize content
Manage display
Set permissions
Content type test drive
Modify image styles and display
Session Summary

Session 3: Content display and organization

Building custom queries with Views
Create lists of content using Views
Related content
Session Summary

Session 4: Site structure and layout

Patterns, Paths and URL aliases
A custom menu
Session Summary

Case Studies: How did they do that?

Session 5: Functionality and interaction tutorials

Introduction: An architecture workshop
Step by step: Extend content types with new field types
Step-by-step: Company reference link
Step-by-step: Job list with drop-down filter
Step-by-step: About this author
Step-by-step: Member list and custom profiles
Step-by-step: Set custom error message
Step-by-step: Search and related content
Step-by-step: Challenges! A review

Session 6: Customizing appearance with Themes

What are themes?
Step by step - Install and configure themes
Session Summary

Session 7: Content and site maintenance

Improve content editing - Text formats and WYSIWYG
Content lists for content administrators
Taking a site offline
Backup and local testing
Updating a module
Security review
Session Summary
Review!
Getting started: Your new client!