Drupal 8 Front End Development

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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This four-day course provides a comprehensive understanding of Drupal 8 for Front End Developers. The procedures throughout the week are introduced step-by-step and then reinforced with practice and challenges. You'll build multiple sites and themes to meet the needs of a client and reflect on your own experience to take the procedures you learn back into your own work and any new situations you encounter.

Day 1 Introduction to Drupal 8
Provides a solid introduction to Drupal 8. Introduces and explains the most essential features and concepts of Drupal through hands-on activities.

Day 2 Building Websites with Drupal 8
Provides a comprehensive deep-dive into the essential skills necessary when building websites with Drupal.

Days 3 and 4 Drupal 8 Layout & Theming
Provides a comprehensive, hands-on training on Drupal 8 theme and layout development. This course provides a variety of approaches for making dynamic layouts in Drupal, and helps users to choose the right approach for their site. Provides techniques and best practices for configuring a flexible and extendable layout for websites and enables users to get more control over the look and feel of their sites by creating custom themes in Drupal.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Drupalists new to Drupal 8 theming (Learners) and HTML / CSS developers new to Drupal (Newcomers).

PREREQUISITES
An understanding of website building using a Content Management System is helpful.
HTML and CSS skills are essential.
Familiarity with YAML and the Twig framework is very helpful.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Describe key features and functionality provided by Drupal 8 core
Define Drupal terminology and describe concepts
Explain and summarize how Drupal sites are constructed and themed
Search for and use Modules to extend Drupal's functionality
Model content types
Create lists of content and other data
Assemble a website out of individual components
Describe and work with Drupal's theme layer
Declare and use custom regions in a theme, theme settings
Apply and utilize Stylesheets and Javascript in a theme
Build a sub-theme from a base theme

Location: 

Online This is an online event.

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