Site Building with Drupal 7

Description

This two-day workshop will explore modules and configurations you can combine to build more customized systems using Drupal. You’ll create many examples of more advanced configurations and content displays using the Fields and Views modules. We’ll guide you through the complex User Interfaces that Drupal provides for controlling and customizing the many different ways to present lists and tables of your site’s content.

What you will learn:

  • Creating custom content types
  • Building RSS feeds
  • Allowing viewers to filter results
  • Building interactive tables
  • Displaying content in a grid
  • Adding a date field to your content, and sorting by date
  • Creating iCAL feeds and other date displays
  • Using views arguments to dynamically filter your results based on the URL
  • How other modules integrate with Views

Days

2 days

Prerequisites

While previous experience using Drupal, and a basic understanding of nodes, comments, blocks, modules and themes is encouraged, if you have a strong technical background you should be able to keep up.

What to bring

Yourself and your laptop. The training site is equipped with power and internet access. Lunch is included.

Details

  • San Francisco, CA
    June 18, 2012 - June 19, 2012
    9:30am - 5:30pm
    $800

Venue & Directions

SF State Downtown

835 Market Street
Room #608
San Francisco, CA 94103-1901

Trainers