Drupal Site Building

Duration: 
2 Days
Summary: 

This two day Drupal 7 training course provides attendees with the knowledge and skills to build flexible and comprehensive Drupal websites. Over the two days we focus on the key Drupal modules that help us to build sophisticated, client-pleasing, custom, websites quickly and cost-effectively: Views, Field UI, Rules, Panels, Features, Flag - and more besides including Git version control.

N.B. This standalone two day training course forms the core part of the Drupal Training Series and can be booked on its own or with either of the two other training days in the series: "Drupal in a Day | An Introduction" and/or "Theming Basics for Drupal"

About You
This course is aimed at: 

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

Prerequisites: 

Attendence at "Drupal in a Day | Hands On | Introduction" or some other Drupal experience is desirable.

The Course
Outline: 

Following this two day course attendees will be able to:

  • Develop sophisticated Drupal websites using the major techniques
  • Use the most powerful, essential, Drupal modules: Views, Field & Field UI, Rules, Panels Features and more
  • Build custom content types using the Fields UI
  • Manage and re-use field definitions within content types
  • Reference one content type from another
  • Reference users to content on your Drupal site
  • Use Views to produce lists of the content you need to display to your visitors and website users
  • Use Views relationships
  • Use arguments in views
  • Understand actions, conditions and events with Rules
  • Create global and non-global flags
  • Trigger Rules with flags
  • Set flags with Rules
  • Page layout with Panels
  • Configuration re-use and deployment with Features
  • An introduction to Git (the version control system used by Drupal.org)
Requirements: 
  • Attendees provide their own Internet-ready laptop (Drupal installation is included as part of each course).
  • Attendees simply need to be comfortable using a computer and a browser (downloading files from Internet etc.)
  • SOME PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF DRUPAL DESIRABLE
Fees
Standard Fee: 
£990 (inc).
Multiple Attendee Fee: 
£790 per attendee (when booking for two or more).
Standby Fee: 
£590 - find out more about booking on "standby"

List of upcoming training events for this particular course - indicating availability.

Course: Drupal Site Building
Availability
Wed Jun 13 - Thu Jun 14 Drupal Site Building | London | June 13-14 2012 Yes
Wed Jul 18 - Thu Jul 19 Drupal Site Building | London | July 18-19 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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