Drupal 7 Developer Fundamentals

Duration
4 days
Course Category
Drupal 7
Course Price
$1800.00


This 4 day class provides a broad introduction to the essential skills necessary for editing content, building websites, introducing your designs, managing the theme layout, and taking control of page templates.

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Site Building
    • Setting up a local environment
    • Planning Your New Site
      • What is Site Building?
      • Content Types
      • Taxonomy
      • Anatomy of a Drupal Page
    • Designing Structured Content Collection
      • Planning Content Types
      • Create a Content Type
      • Adding New Fields & Modifying Existing Fields
      • Adding Taxonomy Fields to Categorize Content
      • Manage Display: Modify Image Styles and Display
      • Set Permissions
      • Content Type Test Drive
    • Content Display and Organization
      • Introduction to Views
      • Create List of Content Using Views
      • Views Display Types
      • Adding Related Content with Views
      • Views Caching and Modules to Extend Views
  • Day 2: Site Building
    • Site Navigation and URLs
      • Custom URL Aliases
      • The Menu System
    • Module Configuration Workshop
      • Selecting Modules to Extend Drupal Functionality
      • 7 Step-by-Step Labs: experiment with common functionality including Calendar and complex Views
    • Customizing Appearance with Themes
      • What are Themes?
      • Install and Configure Themes
    • Content Workflows and Site Maintenance
      • Custom Content Editing, CKEditor
      • Workbench
  • Day 3: Layout & Theming
    • Drupal Theming Fundamentals
      • How Does Drupal Theming Work?
      • What are Themers?
      • Making a Simple Theme
      • Adding CSS and JavaScript to Themes
      • Anatomy of a Theme
    • Customizing Your Theme
      • Coding Standards in Drupal
      • Introduction to Overriding Template Files
      • Adding Regions to Themes and Templates
      • Basic Structures in PHP
  • Day 4: Layout & Theming
    • Base Themes and Subtheming
      • What are Base and Starter Themes?
      • Using Subthemes
      • File Inheritance
    • Matching a Design Using a Zen Subtheme
      • The Client's Design
      • Import Your Site
      • Creating a Zen Subtheme and Configure
      • Building the Layout and Structure
      • Adapting CSS to Match a Design
    • Designing Responsive Drupal Sites
      • Optimizing Navigation
      • Making Views Grid Display Responsive
      • Responsive Images, Slideshows, Videos
    • Controlling Layout Through Configuration
      • Site Building Tips
      • Contributed Modules for Layout
      • The Display Suite Module
      • Panels and Custom Layouts
      • The Context Module

Should I Take this Course?

This course is perfect for those who are:

  • newly responsible for a Drupal 7 website,
  • planning to build a new site in Drupal 7
  • preparing for delivery of a new Drupal 7 development
  • looking to firm up Acquia best practice knowledge for Drupal 7 Certification

Recommended Experience

Having a basic understanding of the following technologies is helpful, but not required:

  • Authoring content using a Content Management system
  • Experience with Drupal's administrative interface
  • Some HTML, CSS knowledge