Drupal Training - Introducing Drupal course (London)
Event Info
Description
This course is suitable for web developers and web designers that are interested in finding out what Drupal can do for them in terms of accelerating and improving their web creation process.
Who's suitable for this Drupal course?
This course is suitable for web developers and web designers that are interested in finding out what Drupal can do for them in terms of accelerating and improving their web creation process.
Delivery and content
This is a hand-on practical course - together we will build “live” websites leading to fully working examples, we will be working through the following syllabus:
- Introduction to Content Management Systems
- Installing Drupal on your machine
- How Drupal handles and categorises content
- Adding menus and navigation
- How Drupal handles users and permissions
- What comes out of the box and how to activate additional functionality
- Downloading and installing additional modules
- Changing the look of your website by installing different themes
- Create more complex content types (with the Drupal Content Construction Kit)
- Adding images and files to your content
- Using WYSIWYG Editors
- Building contact forms and handle newsletters
- Creating catalogues of services / products (introduction to Simple Views)
- SEO Considerations - how to improve your ranking with simple, quick solutions
- A basic e-commerce solution
- Getting social - make your website interactive with voting, moderation and enhanced user registration
- Maintaining your Drupal website - how to keep abreast of Drupal core and module updates
Payment and costs
- £346.62 (includes VAT)
- £311.95 - 10% discount for charities, BIMA, RSA and Intellect members. To receive this discount, please contact info
brightlemon [dot] com with proof of membership, will we then distribute a discount code for you. - £623.92 (includes VAT) for both the introduction and Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK course (10% discount for booking both courses together). For more information on the Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK course course please view Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK
What do I need to know beforehand?
A modest amount of experience in creating simple HTML and CSS based websites. No programming experience is required.
What do I need to bring?
A laptop with ethernet connectivity - the course is hands-on. We will work with websites online.
