Drupal For Beginners at DrupalCamp Chicago

Date: 
Saturday, December 6, 2014 - 12:00

Join me Saturday Dec 6th in Chicago for a full day of Drupal Training for beginners!

Maybe you know nothing about Drupal, but you've heard that it's really really hard.

Maybe you've played around with it and been blindsided by some of the quirkiness of the user interface and complexity.

Maybe you've gotten kind of far, but you feel like you missed out on the foundations of Drupal and wish you had a better grasp of how Drupal works.

No matter what situation you find yourself in, join me as we spend a whole day building a simple, but powerful, blog and article site together as a class.

We'll go step by step and configure:

  • Menus

  • Blocks

  • Nodes

  • Content Types

  • Fields

  • Images

  • Listing pages

  • And more!

Learning Objectives

  • How does Drupal manage content?

  • Where in the Drupal admin menus do I get anything done?

  • How do I control image use in Drupal?

  • How do I categorize my content?

  • How do I create useful navigation elements that leverage my information architecture?

  • How do I manage users?

  • How can I stop pounding my head against the keyboard and actually get stuff done in Drupal!

Prerequisites

Come as you are. Bring your LAPTOP and your frustrations, confusions, and misgivings about Drupal. To follow along with me, you'll need a Drupal install. If you have a fully functional webserver on your desktop, fel free to use it. If not, then get a free sandbox from Pantheon Systems We'll fire up a Pantheon instance at the beginning of class so you can grab one then or now.