The Intermediate Guide to Drupal 7

Teacher: Rod Martin
Released: August 18, 2014
Length: 2.87 hours
Level: Intermediate
Certificate: Finish lessons, plus pass quizzes with an average of 70%

Table of Contents

Description

Teacher

Warm Up

Introduction

Using Acquia's Dev Desktop

Using MAMP/WAMP

Warm Up Tasks Part 1

Warm Up Tasks Part 2

Create

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 Five-Star Rating

Adding the Short Summary

Adding the Watchlist

Adding Social Networking

Adding Gross Income

Adding the Trailer

Introduction to Entity Reference

Adding the Key People

Managing the Display

Intermediate Fields Quiz

Extend

Introduction to Views

Populating our Site with Devel

Create a Block View

Create a Page View

Create the IMDB Page View

Create the Actors Block View

Intermediate Views Quiz

Design

Introduction to Panels

Creating the New Homepage

Redesign an Existing Node

Clean Up and Summary

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

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 motorcycle pretty much everywhere he can.