In this workshop, we teach strategies for building Drupal 7 sites without custom code, using Drupal core and contributed modules. We highlight the best modules for common tasks, introduce content types, users, permissions, paths, blocks, menus, themes, subthemes, text formats, views, and much more. Workshop participants are introduced to these topics through hands-on exercises.
By the end of this course you will have learned how to:
• Build complex and powerful functionality.
• Articulate best practices of site building with Drupal.
• Configure both controlled vocabularies and free tagging with Taxonomy.
• Manage navigation through Drupal’s menu system.
• Configure your site to improve search, through the use of URL path configuration.
• Be able to configure automatically generated thumbnails.
• Know how to create advanced listings of content.
• Save yourself time and effort by collaborating.
• Maintain a secure and speedy website.
All through Site Building… that is, selecting and configuring a variety of modules.
Skill Level: Beginner
Audience: Those with limited Drupal site building experience.
Prerequisites: None.
*Lunch and workshop material provided; participants must bring their own computer. Workshop needs at least 5 participants to run.