Mastering Drupal in a Six Hour Workshop

Workshop Code: hsts-w14

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What Is Included in this Live Workshop

Learn to build complex professional Drupal 9 sites, with highly complex functionality including e-commerce . No programming skills required<.

Overview

- We take you step by step in this intensive workshop from getting started to building complex, professional, interactive sites..
- Build your own site or improve on an existing one - as part of the workshop.

Who should take this workshop

Anyone serious about mastering Drupal. In particular:

- Those who want to build a Drupal site for their business or organization.
- Start-ups that want to build a web application, prototype or their own website.
- Professional web designers or related professionals who want to learn to use Drupal to power their sites.
- Those who want to start a new career as a Drupal consultant.

Workshop Objectives

You will learn:

• How to build a complex, professional sites from the ground up.
• Installing Drupal,  moving sites between servers, upgrading core and modules.
• Essential modules and how to use them.
• Working with themes.
• Building forms and complex content types (include references between content types).
• Building complex Views, including contextual filters.
• Ecommerce, selling products, taking donations, selling files.
• Evaluating modules and themes.
• Working with multimedia
• Social media integration.
• Introduction to custom theming and custom module development.
• Best practices for building professional sites with Drupal.
• How to put together a site that achieves results.
• Common mistakes and how to avoid them.
• Good site architecture, strategy and SEO
• and much more.

Prerequisites

Understanding of either Windows or Mac OS X Operating System

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Self-paced training

This course is available in a self-paced video format for free. Click here to learn more and register. For complete self-paced web design training, visit our Web design and development bundle page.

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Overall Info About our Workshops

Highlights

• 6 hour hands-on training led by experienced instructors
• Digital workshop contents

Enrollment Fee

Online live starts from $390

Workshop Session Dates

Our workshops are offered all year around. Upon registration we enroll you to the earliest available class but you can reschedule it free of charge. Location

• Online or in our DC office at 3165 Mt Pleasant St NW
  

Time

• Saturdays 9AM-4:30PM (1 hour Lunch)
• Weekdays 6:30PM-9:30 PM

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Workshop Outline

Topics Covered in this Course.

1. The Big Picture

• Workshop overview.  
• Drupal vocabulary and concepts.  
• Common mistakes and best practices. 
• Choosing a theme.
• Core functionality.

2. Core, Forms, Content Types and Fields
Content Types are the heart of a site and allow you to build everything to complex user profiles to sophisticated databases. 

• Drupal core continued, permissions, blocks, menus, regions, etc
• Good site architecture 
• How to build and use complex content types.  
• How to build online forms and surveys.

3. Amazing Views
Mastering Views can allow you to build highly sophisticated sites that include slideshow, searchable directories/databases and more.

• How Views allows you to build sophisticated interactive websites.
• How to build advanced Views.
• Related modules.

4. Extending Drupal: Modules

• Understanding Modules
• The essential modules and how to use them.
• Modules you need to know about.
• How to evaluate modules.
• Site Recipes.

5. E-commerce

• How to building stores, take donations, sell and manage memberships, sell digital files, and more.

6. Customizing Drupal

• An overview of making Drupal look and behave exactly the way you want it to.  
• Custom themes and modifying themes.
• Custom modules, glue code and snippets.
• Strategies for working with developers or becoming one yourself.

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