Description

This training will provide you with the knowledge necessary to provide content to your websites designed with Drupal. You'll see the types of content ready for your contributions, learn how to design the ones you need, and organize your content to make it more useful.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Anyone who has to create and manage the content of a Drupal site.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Training program

• Drupal overview
  • What is a Content Management site?rnHistory and particularities of Drupal.
  • The organization of Drupal: Core and extensions.
  • Presentation of the Site section: navigate and modify content.
  • Presentation of the Administrator menu bar.
• Add content
  • The content types offered by Drupal: Article and Basic Page.
  • Text formats.
  • Install and configure the text editor.
  • Add an article.
  • Add images and media.
  • Set publishing options.
  • Edit or delete content.
  • Practical work Create two articles illustrated with an image.
  • Manage publishing options.
• Manage different types of content
  • Create a new content type.
  • Set publishing options for the new content type.
  • Add content matching the new content type.
  • Display new content in a page.
  • Display content in a Block.
  • Use the Blog module.
  • Practical work Create the Expense Report content type.
  • Add an expense report.
• Index contents
  • Create a taxonomy.
  • Assign a taxonomy to a content type.
  • Create a term hierarchy.
  • Associate a term to content.
  • Practical work Propose a taxonomy and index new content using vocabulary terms.
• Search for content
  • Search content from the Administration section.
  • Search content from the Site section.
  • Activate and configure advanced search.
  • Practical work Propose and implement a complete indexing strategy for the site's contents.
• Administer content
  • Define user rights on content.
  • Define Wysiwyg profiles.
  • Define publication dates for content.
  • Configure image styles.
  • Create and configure RSS feeds for content.
  • Create and activate multilingual content.
  • Associate a discussion forum to its content.
  • Enable tracking of recent content for users.