Site building with Drupal 7

eresus

Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM - Friday, November 23, 2012 at 6:00 PM (EET)

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Event Details

We are happy to announce that eresus will hold the first ever Acquia training on Drupal for Greek Drupal lovers. Having acquired official partnership with Acquia, we are able to bring to the Greek community the full program of trainings, including course documents and presentations.

This program is expected to give sitebuilders, developers and themers a chance to boost their skills on Drupal in the same way as the trainings in Brussels and Los Angeles.

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

The ideal accompaniment is to follow this with a one day introduction to using Panels.

Duration:
2 day

Prerequisites:
Experience with web development. Completion of Drupal in a Day, or equivalent experience with Drupal. You should be able to:

• Navigate the administration area to manage essential tasks
• Configure and set up a basic Drupal site.
• Install and configure modules.
• Manage user roles and accounts.

By the end of the training you will be able 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 Drupalʼs 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.
• Maintain a secure and speedy website.

Schedule:

Day 1

Start	Duration	Session	Description
On arrival		Before we start	Expressing ideas and questions in wireframes
10:00	45 mins	Session 1	Site Building introduction What is site building? What are we doing today? Site configuration review
10:45	30 mins	Session 2	Designing and planning content Modeling data and content types Extending with new field types
11:15	15 mins	Break	Take a break
11:30	1hr 30 mins	Session 2	Designing and planning content • Practical activities and a review of concepts.
1:00	1 hr	Lunch	If itʼs nice outside, go for a walk.
2:00	1hr 30 mins	Session 3	Content display and organization Building custom queries with Views Dynamically filtered displays Pages and blocks
3:30	0:15	Break	You might need some tea or coffee!
4:45	45 mins	Session 4	Site structure and layout • Information architecture • Navigation
4:30	1 hr	Day 1 Review	An architecture workshop Brainstorm ideas on the white board or paper. Think about functionality, interaction, and layout.

Day 2

Start	Duration	Session	Description
10:00	15 mins	Introduction to Day 2	Step by step: Intro to the workshop Overview of the structure of the session. Reminder of what we did yesterday.
10:15	1 hr 15 mins	Session 5 continued	Functionality and interaction tutorials Advanced site building activities, step-by-step Installing and configuring popular modules Typical site building procedures
11:30	15 mins	Break	Give your eyes a rest.
11:45	1 hr 15 mins	Session 5 continued	More functionality and interaction tutorials Advanced site building activities, step-by-step Come up with your own unique idea and see what you can do with Drupal.
1:00	1 hr	Lunch
2:00	45 mins	Session 6	Customizing appearance with themes What are themes? Customize a theme
2:45	5 mins	Short break	Make sure you get away from that computer!
2:50	1 hr 40 mins	Session 7	Content editing and site maintenance WYSIWYG & Workbench Consider the experience for content editors And a test!
4:20	10 mins	Short break	Just a short break before the final review
4:30	1 hr	Review	Youʼve got a new client! Work in small group or pairs. How would you build that in Drupal? Look at wireframes for a new client. Think up new creative ideas for the site. Solve the puzzles in Drupal.