Drupal 6 content management system syllabus
This Training class will show you how to put a Drupal site together where you can publish blogs, forums, and Ecommerce.
Pre-requisites: Basic use of computers, Internet.
Fee's:Rs 10,500/-
1. Drupal's requirements and how it works
2. What Can Drupal Do?
- key terms in Drupal
- Drupal's interface
3. Installing Drupal
- Downloading and installing Drupal on a Gnu/linux system.
4. Drupal setup
- Automating updates with cron
- Setting up clean URLs
- Backing up your Drupal site
- Restoring your Drupal site from backup
- Wiping your Drupal installation clean
- Updating Drupal
5. Drupal Administration
- Administration menu
- Site information
- Setting the theme
6. Managing Users
- security and permissions
- Controlling site access with user management
- Creating users
- Setting user profiles
- Creating contact forms
7. Site's Identity
- basic info pages
- page layout
- layout with blocks
8. Keeping your Site Running
- Monitoring performance
- Recovering from disasters
- Improving administration
9. Building Content Nodes
- nodes
- Stories and pages
- blogs
- forums
- polls
10. Managing Site Content
- Content categories
- Exchanging content via RSS
- Input filters
- Comments
- Site's Appearance with Themes and CSS
- Choosing theme
- Changing your theme's graphics
- Finding and installing a new theme
11. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
12. Modules
- Finding modules
- Installing modules
- Configuring modules
13. Must-Have Modules
- Automated updates with poormanscron
- Custom content types with CCK
14 Menus
- multilevel menus
- custom menus
15. Drupal Data Fields
- Content Construction Kit (CCK)
- Creating new content types with CCK
- Hiding the Body field
- CCK field data in the Title field
- CCK field placement
- CCK's other features
- other CCK field types
- Date as a CCK field
- Images as CCK fields
- Connecting content to existing nodes
16. Taxonomies to categorize and group data
17. Views basics
- SimpleViews
- Views interface
- Adding fields to a view
- Sort, Filter, and Field options in Views
- View displays as pages, blocks, and RSS feeds
18. Appearance of Views
- Overriding default settings
- Attaching information to views
- view appearances with grid, list, and table formatting
- other basic display settings in Views
- Control a view's appearance through CSS
19. More control with Views
- Importing, exporting, and cloning views
- Controlling access to views
- built-in views
- views arguments
- views relationships
- Putting Data into Other Forms
- Exporting data in tabular form
20. The calendar modules
- building a calendar page
- building a calendar block
- creates events for calendar
21. Ecommerce using Ubercart
- Setting up an internet store and its configurations
- set up products
- set up payment modules
- setup testing sandboxes
- view reports
22. Launching Drupal Site
