Cost: $1250.00 (minimum 3 people)
This 3-day course provides a broad introduction to the essential skills necessary for managing content and configuring Drupal websites. Hands-on labs will include work with Content Types, Taxonomy, Views, Menus, and many useful modules. The third day levels up configuring Drupal into a very robust CMS.
Course Outline
Site Building Day 1
- Under the Hood of a Simple Website
- Setting up a local environment
- Getting Started
- What is Drupal?
- What Features Does Drupal Offer?
- Important Drupal Terminology
- Drupal Administration Toolbar
- Content Types and Content Modeling
- Structured Content Types
- Custom Content Types and Fields
- Categorize Content with Taxonomy
- Understanding Content Workflows
- User Roles and Permissions
- Creating Roles and Assigning Permissions
- Account Registration Settings
- The Authenticated User Registration Form
- Creating a Content Editor Account via Administrator
Site Building Day 2
- Building What Appears on the Page
- Page Layouts with Blocks
- Custom Blocks
- Building Dynamic Lists of Content with Views
- Views Displays
- Custom URL Aliases
- Configuration Synchronization
- Building Complex Views
- Contextual Filters
- Relationships
- Exposing Filter Options to Visitors
- Creating a View that Returns a List of Content in JSON
- Fielding Entities and Managing Displays
- Review Adding Fields to a Content Type
- Adding Fields to a Content Type
- Adding Fields to a Taxonomy Term
- Adding Fields to Block Types
- Review Display Modes
- Images and Display
- drupal.org and Extending Drupal
- drupal.org Community Resources
- Extending Drupal with Modules
- Using Themes
Site Building Day 3
- Advanced Configuration
- Configuring Media - Better Image Styles, a better View, Usage and more.
- Configuring Text Formats - Linking, Inline Styles, Media with image styles and more.
- Configuring Layout Builder - Adding and configuring contributed modules to make Layout Builder work like it does on this site.
- Adding Social Media links
- Configuring an Advanced Theme
Should I Take this Course?
This course is perfect for those who are:
- newly responsible for a Drupal website,
- planning to build a new site in Drupal
- preparing for delivery of a new Drupal development
- looking to firm up Acquia best practice knowledge for Drupal Certification
Recommended Experience
A basic understanding of the following technologies is helpful, but not required:
- Authoring content using a Content Management system
- Experience with Drupal's administrative interface
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