This full day course covers the basics of Drupal, helps to give you the information you need to decide is Drupal is right for you, and teaches you all the steps to installing, getting up to speed, and learning the basics you need to know.
- What is Drupal? (who, what, why, where, when, how much), (community, open source)
- Drupal Building Blocks (nodes, blocks, taxonomy, users)
- Starting from scratch
- installing XAMP, MAMP (check localhost first for existing servers)
- installing a text editor (notepad++, TextWrangler)
- installing Drupal
- setting up cron
- Drupal updates/security
- installing modules/themes
- Users, roles, permissions
- Drupal building blocks hands on editing
- blocks and regions
- nodes
- taxonomy
- menus
- users
- settings
- themes
- search
- modules
- Short intro to heavy-hitting modules like CCK and Views
- Quick notes on Drupal and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- What happens when you get stuck? Tips for teaching yourself.