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Drupal In A Day Workshop

Saturday, November 27, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM (PT)

Vancouver, British Columbia

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Event Details

The Vancouver Drupal In A Day Workshop is a hands-on introduction to building a web site using the free, open-source content management system Drupal. We will cover questions like "What can Drupal do?", "Why choose Drupal?", and general concepts of on-line content management with a database behind your web site. Then we'll work through the basics of setting up a Drupal site.

This workshop is suitable for Drupal beginners.

The Drupal in a Day Workshop is presented by the Vancouver Drupal User Group.

Requirements:

Attendees must provide their own computers with wireless connection and working web browser.

Goals

  • People attending the workshop will come away with a good understanding of what Drupal does and what types of sites it can be used for.
  • They will be exposed to the basics of building a site in Drupal.
  • They will be exposed to the modules most people use to build Drupal sites.

Schedule

9:00 AM to 10 AM: Sign in, set up

Attendees will be asked to install website software before the course. Please arrive at 9:00 AM to get help. If you already have a clean Acquia Drupal site running, you can arrive at 9:45 AM to sign in and get settled.

10 AM - 10:45 AM - Introduction to Drupal - Presentation

  • Introduce leader and volunteers.
  • What is content management, and what can a content management system (CMS) do?
  • Site showcase - what Drupal can do, what it's really good for
  • Why choose Drupal? Why not choose Drupal?
  • Drupal terminology
  • Modules (core and contributed) and themes - where to get them and what they do
  • File directory structure of Drupal

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM - Getting started with Drupal - Hands on

  • Enabling modules
  • Changing and configuring the theme
  • Setting up automatic URL aliases
  • Creating "Page" content
  • Setting your site's home page, and other settings on the Site Information page
  • Editing the Primary Links menu

(break)

11:45 PM - 12:45 PM - Content types / CCK - Hands on

  • Create a custom content type "Photo", with image and text fields
  • Adjust settings for the content type on the Display Fields screen
  • Taxonomy
  • Create some content for this content type
  • Set up ImageCache to control how photos are displayed

(Lunch)

1:45 PM - 2:45 pm - Views and Blocks - Hands on

  • Use the Views module to create a photo gallery
  • Use the Views menu to create a Latest Photo block
  • Arrange and configure blocks

(break)

3 PM - 4:30 PM - Additional Topics and Wrap-up - Demo, presentation, discussion