Drupal
| TBA | 12 hours |
Drupal is arguably the most powerful and extensible Content Management System (CMS) available today. Drupal is free, open-source, and ever evolving. During this course, students will become familiar with installation as well as the fundamental building blocks necessary to quickly build dynamic web sites.
Programs
Prerequisites
- Should have an understanding of XHTML
- Should have a basic familiarity with PHP
Objectives
- To demonstrate and instruct Drupal to students so they are equipped with the tools necessary to build basic web sites
- To provide a thorough knowledge base for students to later expand on with more advanced Drupal topics
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Install Drupal
- Configure basic Drupal settings
- Navigate Drupal's administration
- Create and manage content
- Create custom content types
- Create and manage blocks
- Describe and administer taxonomy
- Install contributed modules
- Implement the CCK (Content Construction Kit) and Views modules
- Explain the process of performing Drupal updates
- Back up a Drupal site
- Implement a basic custom theme
