Course Code:
drupalbspk
Duration:
21 hours
Prerequisites:
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.
Overview:
This course is aimed at those who are new to Drupal
Course Outline:
Day 1: Administering Drupal
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
Day 2: Introduction to CSS
CSS Basic
- CSS Introduction
- CSS Syntax
- CSS Background
- CSS Text
- CSS Font
- CSS Box Model
- CSS Border
- CSS Outline
- CSS Margin
- CSS Padding
- CSS List
- CSS Table
CSS Advanced
- CSS Dimension
- CSS Classification
- CSS Positioning
- CSS Pseudo-class
- CSS Pseudo-element
- CSS Image Gallery
- CSS Image Opacity
- CSS Media Types
- CSS Don't
- CSS Summary
Day 3: Theming, Maintenance, Managing
The subject matter for the final day will need to be agreed but will include elements of maintaining the website, how to modify it and how to tinker with the code.
- The construction site in Drupal
- Download a theme
- Installing the composition
- Modifying built-composition
- Designing the composition.
- PHPTemplate Engine
- Theming Blocks and Content Types
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Overriding existing Style Sheets
- Creating a new theme from scratch
- Firefox tools
- Plugins - Firebug and Webdeveloper
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