Drupal in a Day

Duration: 

1 Day

Summary: 

This is an introductory course aimed at all who want to understand Drupal and develop the most useful Drupal skills quickly. This course is focused, engaging and enjoyable. It covers the key Drupal principles, concepts and techniques with a clear focus on the latest major version of Drupal - Drupal 7. At the end of this training day you will be able to build fully featured, client-pleasing Drupal websites - and all without any coding at all.

N.B. This standalone training day also acts as an introduction to, and forms part of, the Drupal Training Series and can be booked on its own or with any of the other training days in the series.

This course is aimed at: 

Those new to Drupal 7 and who want to gain essential Drupal skills & knowledge.

Prerequisites: 

No prior experience with Drupal 7 required. No coding experience or prior website building experience needed. Experience with other CMS systems useful but not essential.

Fee: 
£395 (inc). Booking for 2 attendees? Just £295 per seat per day!
Course Outline: 

Following this course attendees will be able to:

  • Understand what Drupal is and what it can do
  • Install Drupal - both single site and multi-site installations are covered
  • Structure your drupal website - menus, blocks etc.
  • Manage users effectively on your Drupal website
  • Manage content: taxonomy, introduction to custom Content Types etc.
  • Use the Fields UI (CCK in version 6) to create custom content
  • Use Views to produce lists of the content you need to display to your visitors and website users
  • Theme Drupal - understanding options for providing an effective and attractive front-end to Drupal
  • Deliver essential SEO ...ensuring that your site ranks as highly as possible
  • ... that's a pretty full day... believe me
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.

Course: Drupal in a Day
Availability
Tue Mar 6 Drupal in a Day | London | March 6 2012 Yes
Tue Mar 20 Drupal in a Day | London | March 20 2012 Yes
Tue Apr 10 Drupal in a Day | London | April 10 2012 Yes

Calendar view here: Calendar of Public Course Dates

Terms and conditions:

  • Course fees are payable when the course is booked and your place reserved. Your seat on the course is reserved for seven days - pending payment in advance. Attendance will not be possible unless fees have been paid.
  • Cancellation fees: Notice must be received at least 2 weeks prior to the course date for a refund to apply. With between 4 and 2 weeks notice of cancellation or postponement, 50% of your payment will be retained as a cancellation charge. With less than 2 weeks notice the cancellation charge will be 100% (no refund due).
  • I do reserve the right to make changes to the programme for the course without prior notice and the venue (any alternative venue will be a reasonable distance from the original and at least 48 hours notice will be given).
  • In the event of a terrorist alert, or any other incident that causes unavoidable disruption - I will not offer refunds to delegates unless the event is canceled - in which case I will retain up to 30% of the ticket cost to cover my non-recoverable costs.
  • N.B. Substitutions are perfectly acceptable as long as the person standing in fulfills the prerequisites for the course (if any).

For more details please contact me.

About the trainer: Ian Fairbairn BSc (PGCE).

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