Agenda - 2010 Seattle Drupal Clinic
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 exposed to the modules most people use to build Drupal sites.
Schedule
9:00 AM to 10 AM: Sign in, set up
If you haven't completed the Before the Workshop steps, please arrive at 9:00 AM to get help. If you already have a clean Acquia Drupal site running, you can arrive at 9:45 AM to sign in and get settled.
10 AM - 10:45 AM - Introduction to Drupal - Presentation
The presentation (Intro to Drupal Part 1) is available on the Notes and Resources page
- Introduce leader and volunteers.
- 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
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM - Getting started with Drupal - Hands on
The Step by Step page has more details.
- Enabling modules
- Changing and configuring 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
(break)
11:45 PM - 12:45 PM - Content types / CCK - Hands on
The Step by Step page has more details.
- Create a custom content type "Photo", with image and text fields
- Adjust settings for the content type on the Display Fields screen
- Taxonomy
- Create some content for this content type
- Set up ImageCache to control how photos are displayed
(Lunch - provided)
1:45 PM - 2:45 pm - Views and Blocks - Hands on
The Step by Step page has more details.
- Use the Views module to create a photo gallery
- Use the Views menu to create a Latest Photo block
- Arrange and configure blocks
(break)
3 PM - 4:30 PM - Additional Topics and Wrap-up - Demo, presentation, discussion
The presentation (Intro to Drupal Part 2) is available on the Notes and Resources page We'll combine that with some demos and discussions, and cover:
- Basic user, permission, and role management
- How to install Drupal on shared hosting
- How to download and install a contributed module or theme
- How to choose which modules to use
- Volunteers showcase sites - discuss how they built them and what modules they used
- Survey
- Where to go to learn more:
- John Walling's resource list
- Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2010 - October 2-3, 2010 in Vancouver, for advanced topics - pnwdrupalsummit.org
- Seattle Drupal Users Group - monthly meetings, on-line forum, IRC chat channel