Drupal 8 Essential Training

In this session:

-We will download and install Drupal 8 with Bitnami.

-Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development environments that can be installed easily.

-The packaged software (a 'stack') provide a consistent, secure and optimized end-user experience when deploying any app, on any platform.

-We will download the Drupal Bitnamni Development Stack and Install it on our local computer.

In this session you will learn

-How to access the source files quickly with short cuts.

- How to start and stop services with your stack manager.

-How to access Drupal site and the related database.

In this session we will show you:

- Where to look for site status errors and how to fix it.

In this session:

- We look at various ways we could get help with our Drupal site management.

- Community help, forums, IRC and professional consulting help are discussed here.

In this session you will learn about:

- What is a Content management System.

- Why it is crucial for organisations moving into the future.

In this session you will learn about:

-Look at arious Content Management Systems. How they compare.

In this session you will learn about:

- How Drupal development environment components work together.

In this session you will learn:

- The main administrator.The first user created during Drupal installation is User 1.

- For day to day admin other user a/c needs to be created and used.

In this session we look at the general user account settings and creation of user roles.

In this session:

-In this session content creation is discussed.

-Out of the box, Drupal comes with Articles and Basic Pages.

- Drupal can create any number of custom content types.

In this session:

- Moving menu item locations.

- add more staff users

- allocate content ownership to different users

- published - draft status of contents

- sticky contents to the top

- comment - no comment

- alias setting

In this session:

- We look at how to edit basic pages and articles on the site.

- Adding new icons for the editor tool set

- Allocating text formats to user groups

Access to previous versions of the contents is a good feature in Drupal.
In this session we look at how to make of the revision features.

Having a contact form on the site will make user communication easy. Drupal comes with a contact form in its default set up. We can create any number of contact forms with Drupal.

In this session:

- Blocks are fundamental to building Drupal websites. Here we learn about managing block regions.

We can create links and add it to a block region.

In this session you will learn:

- How to move information elements within blocks.

In this session we will show you:

- How to create and manage custom block regions.

In this session:

- We will look how to extend Drupal with modules

In this session:

- we look at installing contributed modules from Drupal.Org site.

In this session:

- We will add a discussion forum to facilitate communication with the organisation.

In this session:

- Drupal theming is discussed. Themes are easy to download and install.

In this session:

- We choose a theme from drupal.org site and install iton our site.

Shows a way to identify theme regions

Bootstrap is a powerful and popular theme

Thank you for taking this course. I will be updaing this course when needed. After this basic course students should be able to confidently work with Drupal and persue a career in Drupal site design and administration.