What You Could Have Experienced If You Had Come To Drupal Training Day One
Day One of Drupal Training
… Starts with a good WorkSpace coffee, croissants and fruit. Some phones dead, others left in cars, rain on the windows, taps of fingers on keyboards… meeting the room of folks that have gathered - 14 in all!
… then an ease-into-the-day warm-up to the lovely language and ways of Drupal, from the kind, gentle voice of Bryght’s Djun Kim, as we all begin to perk up from our morning hit of caffeine and starting some inspiring Drupal talk.
From the get-go, the sessions had a great flavour of sharing, as anyone in the intimate group jumped in when needed and questions were addressed quickly and easily from the level of expertise in the room. Djun, James (Bryght’s James Walker made the trek from T.O. to help train as well!) and Scales conducted different parts of the workshop and provided a fluid and informative day.
Some of the topics covered:
- What is Drupal and why do we need it? Short answer: Because it can do ANYTHING!
- A Drupal site can be a site that is… a blog, for social change, a brochure site, an intranet, a portal, club site, web store, social networking, for media, news… pretty much ANYTHING YOU WANT!
- Drupal sites don’t all have to look like Drupal sites! Have a look at these: jumptv.com, ninagordon.com, zimmertwins.ca, rapspace.tv
- Installing Drupal
- From the ground up: Administering your new Drupal site - settings, modules, themes, enabling and disabling all sorts of fun stuff
- Creating Content
At the end of our day, we had an open panel discussion Q and A where we continued with Drupal seeping into our veins…
“I just started using Drupal a few weeks ago, and it’s astonishingly a slick piece of software.” - Matthew Saunders from Westaf in Denver.
The overview of the day from Djun’s original schedule broke down like this.
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