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This Drupal course quickly gets you up to speed with building dynamic database-driven websites with Drupal.

It begins with a basic introduction into the main concepts behind Content Management Systems (CMS) and the types of websites they are meant to help create. We then map these concepts onto Drupal as a CMS and take you through installation to creations of a series of websites - each one adding an additional layer of functionality. 

We start from a simple “presentation” website, move through to the addition of a news capability, present and search through catalogues of services and/or products, add sophisticated contact solutions, e-commerce capabilities and finally some social elements to enable users to interact with each other via the website.

A constant theme throughout the Drupal course is to illustrate how one can map general requirements to specific Drupal concepts.

Drupal training — course information

Date: Thursday, 25th November
Time: 9:00am till 5:00pm
Location: Shoreditch Trust, Units 1-2 Waterhouse, 8 Orsman Road, London, N1 5QJ
Cost: £346.62 (includes VAT - 10% discount available for charities, BIMA, RSA)

Who's suitable for this Drupal course?

This course is suitable for web developers and web designers that are interested in finding out what Drupal can do for them in terms of accelerating and improving their web creation process.

Delivery and content

This is a hand-on practical course - together we will build “live” websites leading to fully working examples, we will be working through the following syllabus:

• Introduction to Content Management Systems
• Installing Drupal on your machine
• How Drupal handles and categorises content
• Adding menus and navigation
• How Drupal handles users and permissions
• What comes out of the box and how to activate additional functionality
• Downloading and installing additional modules
• Changing the look of your website by installing different themes
• Create more complex content types (with the Drupal Content Construction Kit)
• Adding images and files to your content
• Using WYSIWYG Editors
• Building contact forms and handle newsletters
• Creating catalogues of services / products (introduction to Simple Views)
• SEO Considerations - how to improve your ranking with simple, quick solutions
• A basic e-commerce solution
• Getting social - make your website interactive with voting, moderation and enhanced user registration
• Maintaining your Drupal website - how to keep abreast of Drupal core and module updates

Payment and costs

• £346.62 (includes VAT)
• £311.95 - 10% discount for charities, BIMA, RSA and Intellect members. To receive this discount, please contact info@brightlemon.com with proof of membership, will we then distribute a discount code for you.
• £623.92 for both the introduction and Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK course (10% discount for booking both courses together). For more information on the Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK course course please view Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK

What do I need to know beforehand?

A modest amount of experience in creating simple HTML and CSS based websites. No programming experience is required.

What do I need to bring?

A laptop with ethernet connectivity - the course is hands-on. We will work with websites online.

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Terms and conditions

• All cancellations must be no later than 3 weeks prior to the event date. Such cancellations are subject to a handling and administration charge of 35%.
• The company regrets that no cancellations are acceptable within 21 days of the event date but a replacement can be made.
• BrightLemon reserves the right to make changes to the programme, venue, and speakers without prior notice. In the event of a terrorist alert or any other incident  BrightLemon will not offer refunds to delegates unless the event is cancelled in which case BrightLemon Ltd will retain up to 50% of the ticket cost.

For more details please contact info@brightlemon.com