Drupal in a Day!
Drupal introduction
We’ll introduce ourselves and Drupal. We’ll also clear up some misconceptions by comparing it to other systems. We’ll see an administration overview right at the start and open up our Drupal site.
- Part 1: Understand fundamental Drupal concepts
- Part 2: Getting Started with Drupal
- Part 3: Modules: extending Drupal functionality
Drupal Overview: Hands-on tour
Together, we’ll navigate through the core functionality in Drupal for content management, and peek at the advanced configurations possible to customize Drupal for you.
- Part 1. Creating content on your site, adding nodes
- Part 2. Finding and managing content
- Part 3: Organize your content with taxonomy
- Part 4: URLs and Paths to content
- Part 5: Comments
- Part 6: Users, roles and permissions
Drupal Essentials: Content, navigation and layout
We’ll touch on content management, navigation and beginning layout of content. We’ll do hands‐on activities to see the most essential Drupal features and modules in action for you.
- Part 1: Control where content appears with Regions and Blocks
- Part 2: Navigation and the menu system
- Part 3: Control how your site looks with Themes
Advanced Configuration
There are many useful modules to enhance and improve the functionality in Drupal to suit your own case. We will look at advanced content management and control; user registration and management; SEO and site search with ApacheSolr.
- Part 1: Create a custom content type
- Part 2: Create a view block of that content
- Part 3: Place that block on the page
- Part 4: Create a role for who can create and edit that content
- Part 5: Improve find-ability and Configure Search
