Administering a Drupal 7 Website

Delegates are NOT required to install Drupal. Delegates must be familiar with web-based user interfaces and using a web browser. Some HTML knowledge is advantageous.

This course is for people who are completely new to Drupal 7. It will lead you through the basics of running a simple community website with Drupal, where things are and what to expect.

An Introduction to Drupal 7

• What is Drupal?
• The building blocks
• Where things live

Managing Users

• User settings
• Creating, deleting and editing users
• Roles and access

Managing Content

• Creating and editing content types
• Workflow options
• Creating, editing and deleting content
• Searching content
• Using blocks

Ordering Content

• Drupal taxonomy overview
• Creating a directory
• Free tagging
• The Drupal menu system
• Friendly URLs and managing URL aliases

Troubleshooting

• Reading the logs
• Watchdog
• Going offline for maintenance

Paths and Redirections

• Creating path aliases (manually and automatically)
• Paths and SEO
• Redirections
• Changing URL and redirecting users to new one path