Administering a Drupal Website
Duration:
1 Day
Summary:
This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to administer/manage a Drupal website. Whereas the emphasis is on managing content and users, enough technical information is provided to help administrators understand how to extend the functionality of the website by the most common and straightforward techniques.
The course can readily be tailored to Drupal version 6 or 7.
N.B. If this course is not scheduled, simply contact me and it will be scheduled, confirmed immediately on receipt of your payment and will run.
This course is aimed at:
Website administrators and web designers generally who need to know how to manage a Drupal website
Prerequisites:
None.
Fee:
£395 (inc). Booking for 2 attendees? Just £295 per seat per day! Course Detail:
Introduction to Drupal
What is Drupal?
Drupal architecture (high level)
The scope for Drupal websites - what can they do?
Managing Content
Creating, editing and deleting content
User-friendly content editing (WYSIWYG)
Searching content
Using menus & blocks
Handling media resources on Drupal i.e. images, video, file uploads etc.
Managing Users on Drupal
User settings
Adding deleting and editing users
Roles and Permissions
Helper modules specific to user management
Organising Content
Drupal taxonomy overview
Drupal menu system & blocks (revisited)
Clean URLs (search engine and user-friendly addresses for your content)
Drupal and SEO
How Drupal helps with SEO out-of-the-box
Contributed modules that assist with SEO
SEO considerations for Drupal admins
Housekeeping
Offline mode for maintenance
Backing up a Drupal website
Restoring from a backup
Understanding core & module releases
Updating core and contributed modules
Blocking unwanted users
Requirements:
- Attendees provide their own Internet-ready laptop.
- Attendees simply need to be comfortable using a computer and a browser (downloading files from Internet etc.)
- NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF DRUPAL NECESSARY
List of upcoming training events for this particular course - indicating availability.
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