In this class you'll learn how to master fields, Views and Panels to create sophisticated Drupal sites.

This class follows immediately on from the beginner class and takes your Drupal skills to a higher level.

In the first three parts of the Drupal 7 Intermediate class, you'll build a movie website. First you'll learn how to add multiple types of information using fields:

• Introduction to the Project
• Adding the Poster
• Adding the Parental Rating
• Adding the Movie Length
• Adding the Movie Genre
• Adding the Release Date
• Adding the Short Summary
• Adding the Five-Star Rating
• Adding the Watchlist
• Adding the Trailer
• Adding the Key People
• Managing the Display

Then you'll tackle Views, which is the most important module in Drupal. It will allow to display the information you've entered in useful and highly customized ways:

• Introduction to Views
• Populating our Site with the Devel Module
• Create a Block View
• Create a Page View
• Create the IMDB Page View
• Modify the IMDB Page View
• Create the Actors Block View

In the third part of the class, you'll learn how to layout your information using the Panels module:

• Introduction to Panels
• Creating a New Homepage
• Redesigning an Existing Page or Node

In the final part of the class, you'll practice everything that you've learned about Drupal so far and recreate the most famous Drupal website in the world: WhiteHouse.gov.

• Introduction to the Practice Assignment - WhiteHouse.gov
• Set Up a New Site
• Planning
• Content Types
• Fields
• Add Content using Devel
• Views: Photo of the Day
• Views: Featured Legislation
• Views: The Blog
• Views: Featured Topics
• Views: Slideshow of Headlines
• Design: Theme, Views and Blocks
• Panels: Create Homepage

Rod Martin

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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. His 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.

Courses by this teacher

Name	Level	Release Date
Joomla 2.5 Beginner		06-01-2011
Joomla 1.5 Beginner		08-04-2010
Joomla 1.5 Intermediate		02-09-2011
Joomla 1.5 Template Design		06-07-2011
Drupal 7 Beginner		11-14-2011
Drupal 7 Intermediate		02-21-2012
Drupal 7 Display Suite		05-30-2012
Drupal 7 Views		08-15-2012
Introduction to Responsive Design		01-14-2013