Leveraging Your Existing Drupal 6 Website Workshop
Hall of Champions in Balboa Park
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
9:30-4:00
Only 12 seats left
Price $99 (Lunch not provided)
So you are managing a Drupal 6 site! Learn how to leverage the tools and capabilities and harness Drupal power for yourself and your organization. Learn the basics of increasing functionality, extending current modules and features, and what's possible.
This class is targeted towards non-technical managers or individuals who are responsible for managing, maintaining and working with a Drupal website for their company or organization.
9:30 – 10:00
Intros, Why Drupal?
10:00-10:30
How Drupal Works: CMS MySQL PHP
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-11:45
Drupal Glossary: Nodes, Blocks, Divs, Themes, Modules
11:45-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30
Accessing Drupal: Users, roles, permissions
1:30-2:00
Leveraging Taxonomy: creating, sorting and surfacing content
2:00-2:30
Managing Stuff: Content types
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:45
Drupal Magic: Making views
3:45-4:00
Questions
How to Prepare for the Day:
Bring a laptop
Bring a sweater
Bring your Drupal login for the site you manage
You will be working in paired teams
Each team will have a Drupal sandbox website to use during the class