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Introduction to Drupal
Syllabus for Introduction to Drupal
Before we start:
Week 1: Introduction
Guest guide: Salim of WebEnabled, Doug Vann
Week 2: Set up and Go!
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Learning Objectives
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Understand: "What is Site Building with Drupal?"
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Using Web Enabled environment
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Using CCK & Views
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Activities:
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Discuss in Webinar 2
Guest guide: Doug Vann http://dougvann.com/
Week 3:Getting started with distributions
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Learning Objectives
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What distributions are available?
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How to access them from Web Enabled
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Compare and discuss them online
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Activities;
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Discuss in Webinar 3
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How can you extend them? How do you upgrade them?
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How do distributions work?
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Things to watch out for.
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And a mention of community podcasts, feeds and webinars to check out.
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Week 3 Recording: http://www.viddler.com/explore/LearnDrupal/videos/4/
Guest guide: Ryan Price of Drupal Easy http://drupaleasy.com/
Week 4: Organize your site and content for findability
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Learning Objectives
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How to help visitors find content on your site through navigation & search
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Using Taxonomy; Menus & Blocks to organize navigational elements
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More like this and Facted search with ApacheSolr
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Task
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Discuss in Webinar 4
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Search engine optimization
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How these work together
Guest guide: Tom McCracken from Level Ten http://levelten.com/
Wednesday: October 20th - this week we are on a mid-term break.
Week 5: Theming in Drupal
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Learning Objectives
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What is a theme?
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How to select, install and enable a theme
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How to make simple modifications to theme files
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Task
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Discuss on Forum : Week 5 - Any questions about theming with Drupal?
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Webinar
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Intro to making a sub-theme in Zen
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Best practices for theming
Guest guide: Heather
Week 6: Workflow that works
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Materials on this week's session
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Thanks to James Stone for this week's lessons!
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Learning Objectives
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What is version control
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Migration from Web Enabled to local environment with DAMP stack
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Working collaboratively
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Backing up and maintenance best practices
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Work environment & tools
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Task
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Backup your site
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Set up a local work environment
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Local environment, overview of tools on Mac + PC; and command line (via Acquia Drupal or Xampp)
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Discuss in Webinar 6
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Demonstration of various developers’ work environments
Guest guide: Joshua Bruaer from Acquia http://acquia.com/
Finale!
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Final Week learning materials
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Learning Objectives
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Connect to the community
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Places to find resources and help
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Task
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Locate either a local or topical group on g.d.o, write a post, or respond to a post
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Respond to a forum post on drupal.org
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Showcase! Screenshot a part of your sandbox.
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Task: Describe How did you do that? Blog or post on drupal.org ‘Post installation’ forum.