Hands-on training | Double session

We'll start with a discussion of how the Drupal CMS (content management system) can help solve your business needs. After discussing the power of structured content, we'll dive into the basic components of building a Drupal site.  You'll install a Drupal 8 site on your machine, then get plenty of hands-on experience adding components to your Drupal site. 

Remember to bring a laptop as this is a hands-on training session

Topics covered include:

- the benefits of using Drupal

- Drupal specific pitfalls that you need to understand

- discovery versus building the site

- using prototypes during discovery

- the Drupal 8 versus Drupal 7 decision

- considerations when making choices in how to build your Drupal sites

- structured content and why this is important as one of the first steps

- entities that allow you to store content with user defined fields

- content displayed in multiple ways across multiple pages in your website

- reusable images that allow for different sizing and effects

- views that allow you to easily display content on your Drupal site

- themes to use for responsive websites

- considerations for maintaining your Drupal site