Drupal Theming and Site Building Workshop at Planet Digital!

A three-day workshop that teaches industry best-practice Drupal theming and site building. Featuring trainer Ryan Price who has built entertainment sites, social networks, and eCommerce sites for clients including Popular Science, Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines. With over 10 years of experience building sites with PHP and other technologies, Ryan began immersing himself in Drupal around 2006. Quickly becoming one of the countries leading Drupal experts! But, don't take our word for it, check out Ryan, Mike Anello and their co-host Andrew Riley on the weekly DrupalEasy Podcast, for yourself!

Day 1: Covers the fundamental principles of Drupal theming geared toward people who wish to take a static mockup of a site design and turn it into a Drupal theme and more!

• Discussion about separating content from presentation

• Examples of theme-switching in Drupal

• HTML and CSS in Drupal

• Intro to PHP (print $content;)

• Breaking down a Drupal site (page, node, block, etc...)

• Anatomy of a theme

• page.tpl.php

• node.tpl.php

• template.php

• Taking a static HTML template and Drupalizing it

Day 2: Covers using base themes, grid-based layout and helper modules to streamline and customize your Drupal theme.

• using zen, fusion or blueprint as a base theme

• intro to CCK and Views

• theming CCK

• theming Views

• Creating a new theme based on a base theme with CCK and Views custom theming

• customizing blocks

• unleashing Skinr

• adding some polish to your site's forms

Day 3: Is an advanced site building workshop, covering some of the most popular and powerful Drupal modules: CCK and Views, and modules for content editing, search engine optimization, user-generated content and editorial workflows.

• Essential modules: administration menu and devel module

• Setting up a rich-text editor

• Configuring your site for search engine optimization (SEO)

• Editorial tools: flag, nodequeue and more

• Security best practices

• Friendly, taxonomy-based URLs

• CCK and Views power tools

• Getting help when you're stuck

Duration: 3 days

Date and Time: September 28th- 30th from 9am to 4pm in our facility in Thornton Park, Orlando FL.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

For additional information about this unique opportunity, email chad@planetdigital.com or call 407-896-7326 and ask for Chad.