Description

This course will provide you with the useful knowledge to administer a site designed with Drupal on a daily basis. After installing and configuring Drupal, you will learn the main administration tasks. You will learn how to analyze a site's monitoring dashboards, create a distribution and deploy it.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Web master and anyone having to install and configure a site created with Drupal.

Prerequisites

Have fundamental knowledge of website creation and HTML/CSS languages.

Training objectives

Set up and configure the Drupal 7 content management system (CMS) Develop, structure and navigate content elements Set up, configure and use extensions Deploy, configure and customize graphic templates (themes) Regularly manage a site under Drupal 7

Training program

• Drupal overview
  • The positioning of Drupal compared to other CMS.
  • Main features.
  • Architecture: Nodes, Core, Modules, Themes.
  • Multilingual management.
  • Install Drupal on a local, remote server.
• Create and manage content
  • Content types.
  • Set content options.
  • Content: create, edit, access, delete, search.
  • Configure the display of a content type.
• Taxonomies
  • Create vocabularies.
  • Associate a vocabulary to a content type.
  • Work with multiple vocabularies.
• The navigation system
  • Create a menu.
  • Add a menu item.
• The blogs
  • Position blocks on a page.
  • Configure blocks.
  • Create custom blocks.
• Modules
  • Install and configure a module.
  • The Views, Panels, Nicemenus, Nodequeues, Webform modules.
  • The Token module.
  • The SEO modules (Pathauto, Metatag, Google Analytics, RDF and Schema.org).
• The themes
  • How it works.
  • Install, configure a new theme.
  • Customize a theme.
• Administer a Drupal site
  • Administrator tasks.
  • Users, roles, permissions.
  • Back up and restore the site.
  • Track activity of the site.
  • Putting a Drupal site into production.