Agenda - 2009
Goals
- People attending the workshop should come away with a good understanding of what Drupal does and what types of sites it can be used for.
- They should be exposed to the basics of building a site in Drupal.
- They should be able to get some one-on-one help with Drupal topics of interest to them.
Schedule
9:30 AM to 10 AM: Set up, sign in, coffee and morning donuts/snacks available
10 AM - 10:30 AM - Introduction to Drupal - presentation
The presentation is available on the Notes and Resources page
- Introduce leader and volunteers, thank sponsors.
- What is content management, and what can a content management system (CMS) do?
- Site showcase - what Drupal can do, what it's really good for
- Why choose Drupal? Why not choose Drupal?
- Drupal terminology
- Modules (core and contributed) and themes - where to get them and what they do
- File directory structure of Drupal
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Getting started with Drupal - Hands on
See Step-by-Step schedule for more details
- Installing Drupal
- Enabling modules
- Basic user and role management
- Changing the theme
- Setting up automatic URL aliases
- Creating "Page" content
- Setting your site's home page, and other settings on the Site Information page
- Editing the Primary Links menu
- Making a database backup
(break)
11:45 PM - 12:45 PM - Content types / CCK - Hands on
See Step-by-Step schedule for more details
- Create a custom content type "Event"
- Adjust settings for the content type on the Display Fields screen
- Taxonomy
- Create some content for this content type
(Lunch - provided)
1:45 PM - 2:45 pm - Views - Hands on
See Step-by-Step schedule for more details
- Customize the built-in Calendar view to create an event calendar
- Enable and customize the "upcoming events" block from the Calendar view.
2:45 PM - 3 PM - Wrap-up
- Where to go to learn more - check out John Walling's resource list
- Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2009 - [NOW PAST] - October 24-25, 2009, for advanced topics - http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/
3 PM - 5 PM - One-on-one or Small Groups
- Introduce afternoon volunteers, thank sponsors.
- Attendees will be paired with a volunteer (one-on-one or in small groups), and get help with their Drupal questions, work more on their class sites, etc. Suggested projects on the class site:
- Image gallery - ImageField module and Views
- Contact forms with Webform module
- Explore the Site Configuration menu
- Set up input formats and WYSIWYG button profiles
- List of modules and themes available on the class sites is on the Notes and Resources page