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Drupal Course for Website Development
The syllabus has been divided into 7 sessions. This course will be available online very soon.
Those who wish to learn individually or if any institute wants to call us, they can mail us at admin@aliencoders.org
Duration of this course is 20 Hours approx.
For whom it will be useful?
- Those who wish to learn to create a website using Drupal CMS
- For students who wish to do a project on web development
- For individuals who wish to create a full-fledged website for their own use.
Prerequisites
- Should have basic knowledge of web hosting
- Should have used internet and should be able to working structure of internet
- If a person knows PHP and MySQL, then it will be an added advantage but it’s not mandatory though
- Basics of HTML and CSS, so that one can play with the customization of themes
Drupal Syllabus
Session 1 ( 2 hour)
- Introduction to CMS and Drupal
- Drupal's requirements and how it works
- What Can Drupal Do?
- Installing Drupal
- Downloading and installing Drupal on a system
Session 2 (2 hours)
- Administration menu
- Site information
- basic information on pages
- Monitoring performance
- Reports
- File structure and layout
Session 3 ( 2 hours)
- Setting up the theme
- Managing Users
- Setting user profiles
- Controlling site access with permissions on each profile type
- Creating users
- Creating contact forms
- Layout with blocks
Session 4 (2 hours)
Meaning of
- Nodes
- Stories and pages
- Blogs
- Forums
- Comments
- Polls
- Taxonomy
- Input filters
- Feed Aggregator
Session 5 (4 hours)
- Managing Site Content
- Content categories
- RSS feeds
- Fiddling with Themes and its CSS part
- Choosing theme according to your needs
- Finding and installing a new theme
- Modules
- Finding and installing modules
- Configuring modules
- Some essential Modules
- The calendar modules
- building a calendar page
- building a calendar block
- creates events for calendar
- Multilingual Support system (Transliteration)
Session 6 (3 hours)
- Custom content types with CCK
- Menus and its types
- multilevel menus and custom menus
- Drupal Data Fields
- Content Construction Kit (CCK)
- Creating new content types with CCK
- Hiding the Body field
- CCK field data in the Title field
- CCK field placement
- CCK's other features
- other CCK field types
- Date as a CCK field
- Images as CCK fields
- Connecting content to existing nodes
Session 7 (4 hours)
- Automating updates with cron
- Setting up clean URLs
- Backing up your Drupal site
- Restoring your Drupal site from backup
- Wiping your Drupal installation clean
- Updating Drupal
- Drupal7 Installation with minimal introduction
- Future of Drupal