Drupal 7 Intermediate

Name: Drupal 7 Intermediate
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Take your Drupal knowledge to the next level. Learn all about content types, Views and Panels.

Created byOS Training LLC

Last updated 6/2012

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Course content

5 sections • 38 lectures • 2h 29m total length

Warm Up Tasks4:06
Log in to the Drupal site, create a movies content type with a director field, set it as required, then add a Titanic entry with director James Cameron.
Update Site Configuration2:00

Introduction to the Project2:00
Adding the Poster3:58
Adding the Parental Rating3:07
Adding the Movie Length2:09
Adding the Movie Genre8:19
Explore how to create and apply a movie genre taxonomy in Drupal 7, defining vocabularies and terms, configuring a term reference field, and linking genres to content for navigable lists.
Adding the Release Date6:10
Adding the Short Summary1:07
Adding the Five-Star Rating3:16
Install and enable the voting API and five star rating module to add a rating field, configure rated while viewing, and set ten stars for end-user votes and averages.
Adding the Watchlist2:27
Adding the Trailer5:06
Adding the Key People14:14
Create a Drupal 7 content type 'people' with poster, real name, birth date, birthplace, and skills taxonomy; connect to movies via node reference for linked actor bios.
Managing the Display3:20

Introduction to Views1:31
In the first part of this class we showed you how different types of information is added your Drupal site. However, at the end of the chapter we realized that there are still significant limitations about what we can do what that information. For example, IMDB has a table like this: http://www.imdb…
Populating our Site with the Devel Module2:50
Create a Block View3:33
Create a Page View4:54
Create the IMDB Page View5:57
Modify the IMDB Page View1:31
U sing the same techniques that we've learned so far, we could keep going back to Drupal.org and looking for more modules. With time Drupal could mimic almost everything on those IMDB reviews. However, this field and modules pattern can only take us so far. It gets the data into our site but it can'…
Create the Actors Block View5:47
Create the actors block view in Drupal 7, showing five newest people in a grid with thumbnail photo, title, and date of birth, resizing images to 120 by 150.
Session Notes: Actors Block View3:56
Now that we've created three views, let's try one more. This time we won't give you full instructions for every click - unless you watch the video. What we're aiming to recreate is this area on the frontpage of IMDB.com: First, let's plan out our View using the five main options: Display Format Fiel…

Introduction to Panels1:20
The final part of building a Drupal site is design. Only when the content is in place can it be designed. This can come a bit of a shock to people who are used to designing first. When I was a web designer it was normal for the client to focus on the design above all things and then think about the…
Creating a New Homepage6:16
Install and enable panels and chaos tools, create a new home page with a two-column stack layout, add views like latest movies and top 250 movies, and save.
Redesigning an Existing Page or Node6:43

Introduction to the Practice Assignment - WhiteHouse.gov0:23
Drupal Intermediate: Practice What we're going to do now is pull together all of the different techniques that we have covered. We're going to aim high. For this practice, we're going to replicate the most famous Drupal website in the world: http://whitehouse.gov, as in the image below
Set Up a New Site2:46
Planning2:52
Content Types1:18
Set up and save multiple content types—feature topics, headlines, legislation, photos, blogs, and blocks—within structure content types, as planned.
Fields3:51
Configure image and date fields for content types in Drupal 7, including a 600 by 600 photo, 512 kb limit, public files, and a popup calendar for legislation.
Add Content using Devel1:15
Views: Photo of the Day5:39
Views: Featured Legislation4:27
Views: The Blog2:54
Create a blog view as a block in Drupal 7, set a single-column grid, add body and post-date, order posts, trim body to 100 characters, and remove pagination.
Views: Featured Topics2:40
Views: Slideshow of Headlines4:14
Design: Theme, Views and Blocks6:58
Panels: Create Homepage4:12

Description

This class follows immediately on from the beginner class and takes your Drupal skills to a higher level. You'll learn how to master fields, Views and Panels to create sophisticated Drupal sites.

The course includes a course project, where we replicate the most famous Drupal site in the world, WhiteHouse.gov

This is the same material that we have used to teach businesses, universities, and government organizations, such as MIT, Stanford, NY Transit Authority, and Houston Public Library.

We hope you enjoy the course!

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Course content

Warm Up2 lectures • 6min

Create12 lectures • 55min

Extend8 lectures • 30min

Design3 lectures • 14min

Practice13 lectures • 43min

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