Scribe Drupal Course

Class 1: Intro to Drupal and Site Build Begin

Introductions:

• Who are we?
• What do we want to build?

Menu:
Home Videos Events About Contact

Home Page:

Slideshow of videos         Events block

Theory:

• Free and Open Source Software basics
• Drupal history
• highlights of current adoption
• Drupal community
• basics of where it interacts and how to connect
• What Drupal is (code, files, database)
• Core and Contrib
• cascading nature of functionality

Practice:

• Overview of Administration
• Site Building
• Site Configuration
• User permissions
• Content
• status menu
• turning on and off modules
• Edit Site Name
• Add about page
• Add menu
• Add Contact form
• Add permissions
• Site architecting

Class 2: Content Types, Development Tools, and Site Building Contiued

Theory:

• Different Page Elements
• nodes: the heart of drupal content
• fields: the future of drupal content
• menu
• blocks / regions
• taxonomy
• Content Types
• what are they
• nodes / fields
• Emfield
• Development Tools
• Firebug
• PHPMyadmin
• Devel

Practice:

• Make content types
• Video
• Event

Class 3: Drupal Community, Drupal Code, and Views!

Theory:

• Connecting with the Drupal Community
• groups.drupal.org
  Sign up now! http://groups.drupal.org/philadelphia-area
• IRC
• Issue Queues
• Module Evaluation
• Review of How Core and Contrib work
• Security updates

Practice:

• Finish content types (if necessary)
• Introduction to Views
• Brilliant documentation: http://training.zivtech.com/class/drupal-site-building-training/views
• Filters and Sorts
• Creating basic lists
• Nodes vs. Fields

Class 4: Views continued!

Theory:

• Working practices: how not to drive yourself crazy
• Deployment Dilemna
• Intro to subversion
• Navigating hosts
• Backup Strategies

Practice:

• Views continued
• Arguments
• Relationships
• Helpful modules
• WYSIWYG!

Class 5: Media and Drupal

Theory:

• Under the hood, how modules work
• Major hooks
• module basics
• Panels: you might want to use this

Practice:

• Path Aliases and SEO
• Other great contrib modules
• Adding five-star for voting
• Comment notify
• Making a survey using webform

Class 6: Theming Overview and Site Launch

Theory:

• Theming WTF
• Starter themes
• Base themes
• Theme files
• Theme templates
• Theme functions

Practice:

• Selecting a new theme
• Changing css
• Using devel to identify templates and functions
• Overiding a theme function
• Overiding a template