Beginner's Guide to Drupal

Time: 
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: 
$150

This is the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal, offered by OSTraining. This class has a more traditional, live class format. An expert teacher will guide you through building a real Drupal site. You'll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate and begin building a Drupal site. You'll also get 6 months of online access to OSTraining's Drupal video classes. The cost is $150 and the class runs all day.

You’ll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate and begin building a Drupal site. We’ve taught new Drupal users from the White House to Harvard and the New York Transit Commission to the small business owner. We’ll help it make sense.

  • Part 1: Introduction to Drupal: What? Who? When? Why?
  • Part 2: Installing Drupal
  • Part 3: Navigating the Drupal interface
  • Part 4: Understanding Drupal content
  • Part 5: Managing Drupal content using content types
  • Part 6: Adding data fields to Drupal content
  • Part 7: Choosing and configuring modules
  • Part 8: Choosing and configuring themes
  • Part 9: Configuring and working with Drupal user permissions
  • Part 10: Building a full Drupal site so that students can practice everything they learned during the class

Attendees will need a laptop with Acquia’s Dev Desktop installed, if they wish to follow along with the tasks.