Cincinnati Drupal Beginner Training

Drupal Training in Cincinnati

Drupal is one of the best and most popular ways to build a website. It is flexible, scalable and is continuously improved by thousands of people around the world.

Drupal powers some of the largest sites on the web and is being widely adopted by organizations from small businesses to the White House and leading U.S. government agencies and companies such as eBay, Sony and the New York Stock Exchange.

We offer two days of Drupal training:

  • Day 1 is for complete beginners. You'll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate and use a Drupal site.
  • Day 2 is for people who have completed Day 1 or have some Drupal experience. You'll learn how to build and maintain Drupal sites.

The two days of training are designed to be taken together, but you're also welcome to attend for only one day.

Day 1: Beginner

You'll learn how to build a Drupal website, from content and user organization, to working with modules and themes. The class will focus on Drupal 7 but questions are welcome on other versions.

Topic
  • Part 1: Introduction to Drupal: What? Who? When? Why?
  • Part 2: Installing Drupal
  • Part 3: Navigating the Drupal interface
  • Part 4: Understanding Drupal content
  • Part 5: Managing Drupal content using content types
  • Part 6: Adding data fields to Drupal content
  • Part 7: Choosing and configuring modules
  • Part 8: Choosing and configuring themes
  • Part 9: Configuring and working with Drupal user permissions
  • Part 10: Building a Drupal site and providing reinforcement for concepts learned during class

Day 2: Intermediate

On Day 2, you'll build on your Drupal knowledge and get to grips with how to modify, improve and develop great Drupal websites.

Topic
  • Part 1: An introduction to the Drupal workflow for building a complete, advanced sites
  • Part 2: An introduction to Fields and how they add data and functionality to Drupal content
  • Part 3: Building more advanced Drupal content with Fields, together with additional modules
  • Part 4: An introduction to the Views module and examples of how it sorts and organizes your Drupal data
  • Part 5: Building more advanced Drupal layouts with Views, together with additional modules
  • Part 6: An introduction to the Panels module and drag-and-drop, code-free design for your Drupal pages
  • Part 7: Building a practice site, uniting everything the student has learned about Fields, Views and design

What's Included With the Training

Live Training
Practical, hands-on training from an experienced Drupal teacher
Forum Support
Six months of forum support with same-day answers to your questions
 
Workbook
A copy of The Drupal Workbook, a book version of the class
Videos
Six months of access to our online Drupal training and support
 
Cheat Sheets
All the key information from the class in one useful guide
Completion certificate
A personalized completion certificate
 

Class Trainer

Rod Martin

Rod holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations.

Rod's extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Moodle and he really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose. Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorbike pretty much everywhere he can.

Class Location

Pay by Credit Card by Phone

Please feel free to call 678-830-2168 and speak with an OSTraining representative. They'll be able to help you pay and register for a class.

Pay by Check

  • 1 Please send a check to: Open Source Training, P.O. Box 907895, Gainesville, GA 30501.
  • 2 Please include the name of the student plus their email address.
  • 3 Your seat in the class will be confirmed only when the check arrives. Classes are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.
  • 4 If you need an invoice before ordering, please email support@ostraining.com.

Refund Policy

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