Dallas

Drupal in a Day will be an overview of creating a Drupal site from start to finish. Participants will start with a blank website and, already having seen the final site, will start with adding and managing users, creating user profiles, adding custom content, and managing that content (including turning on and off comments, or setting comments to read-only). Participants will then create custom content types and look at views to display this content in various parts throughout the site, including custom blocks and list pages, such as a blogroll, the last five images added, or the latest blog posts added to the site.

Because this class will be an overview and not an in-depth course, it is perfect for people who are on the fence about using Drupal or who are looking for a hands-on introduction. Those who are looking for an in-depth Drupal site-building training should additionally purchase the Drupal for Site Builders course.

Fee includes lunch and materials.

Learning Goals

• Managing content, navigation and taxonomy
• Extending Drupal through modules
• Understanding theming and modifying page layouts
• User management and permissions
• Modifying and creating content types
• CCK basics
• Simple views

Course Format

The course is a one day course with a mixture of lecture, demonstrations, exercises and workshop time.

Intended Audience

This course is for anyone wanting to become more familiar with how Drupal works. It is an introductory course suitable for people with little to no web experience such for owners, managers, marketers and webmasters. It is also ideal for web developers or people experienced with other CMSs, but no Drupal experience, who are needed to quickly get oriented to how Drupal works.

Prerequisites

Interest in learning about content management systems, no prior web development or Drupal skills are required. Understanding Content management & Drupal are helpful.

Additional Courses

Drupal for Site Builders directly builds upon the skills taught in this class providing a more in depth look at CCK, views and other popular site building modules.

In two days time, participants will be brought up to speed on Drupal and be ready to tackle their own project. This course is designed both for users with no Drupal experience and those who are familiar with Drupal and want to expand their knowledge and dig deeper into their sites. The course provides in-depth discussions on Drupal’s installation process and managing users, comments, and content. Participants will also review Drupal's block system and using taxonomy to categorize their content.

On the first day, significant time will be devoted to creating new content types using the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and exploring field types, widgets, and the corresponding settings.

The second day will be dedicated entirely to CCK and Views. Views is a powerful tool used to create custom pages, blocks, and RSS feeds on your site. Participants will finish the day by creating a photo gallery using CCK, image field, and Views.

Fee includes lunch and materials.

Learning Goals

CCK and additional CCK fields
Views and views extensions
Image management and imagecache
User management and permissions

Course Format

The course is a one day course with a mixture of lecture, demonstrations, exercises and workshop time.

Intended Audience

This course is indented for those with a basic understanding of Drupal administration to expand their knowledge towards becoming efficient site builders. It is ideal for those who are seeking a deeper understanding of CCK and views.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with basic Drupal content management and administrative tasks such as adding and editing content and working with blocks, menus, taxonomies, users and permissions. If you are not familiar with these concepts, it is recommended you take Drupal in a Day prior to this course.

The Social Media Club of Dallas is excited to present Erik Qualman, Author of Socialnomics and creator of the viral video Social Media Revolution.

Socialnomics made Amazon's #1 Best Selling List for the US, UK, Canada and Germany. It is also currently being translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese. Qualman is a frequently requested International speaker of the Fortune 500 and has been highlighted in numerous media outlets including: BusinessWeek, The New York Times, CNET, San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, USA Today, Forbes, CBS Nightly News, and The Huffington Post. He has been fortunate to share the stage with Alan Mulally (Ford CEO), Lee Scott (CEO/Chairman Walmart), Jose Socrates (Prime Minister of Portugal),Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (Nokia CEO), Julie Andrews (Actress), Al Gore (former Vice President) and Sarah Palin. He also has one of 2010's most viral videos on YouTube in "Social Media Revolution".

Magnolia Theater
3699 McKinney Avenue
at Lemmon Ave.
Dallas, TX 75204

Calling all picture-snappers, internet-makers and the designers and art directors that love them. Come to this month's social networking happy hour. Let's chat about business and/or non-business and take this opportunity to meet and/or reconnect. All members and nonmembers are invited and highly encouraged to come out.

The DSVC Social Network aims at bringing together members and non members to discuss relevant topics on a monthly basis. These are free, open discussions where everyone can interact and discuss different point of view on various subjects of note. These social networking meetings are totally casual and totally free, and along with solving a design crisis or answering a question or two, are a great opportunity for our community to get to know each other face to face.

Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Belmont Bar
901 Fort Worth Ave.
Dallas, TX 75208
Cost: FREE

This month's team building event will take place at the Dallas Comedy House where we will explore the tools used in improvisational performances and apply them to the workplace.

This Wednesday, LevelTen Interactive sposors IgniteDallas#1

Granada Theater
3524 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206

• What is Ignite Dallas?

Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say? At Ignite Dallas, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities will take the stage to answer this challenge.

• The Goal

To spark new conversations and collaborations across cultures and disciplines throughout the city of Dallas with fast-paced, bite-sized presentations. It’s a great opportunity to meet smart, interesting people (if we do say so ourselves) and maybe even learn something.

• About Ignite

What is Ignite? It was started by Brady Forrest, Technology Evangelist for O'Reilly Media, and Bre Pettis of Etsy.com, formerly of MAKE Magazine. Ignite was inspired by Pecha Kucha Nights, where speakers are given 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds, giving each speaker 6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame. The first Ignite took place in Seattle in 2006, and since then the event has become an international phenomenon, with gatherings in Helsinki, Finland; Paris, France; New York, New York; and many other locations. In 2010, Dallas will be joining the ranks and I hope you will lead the way.

Learn more at IgniteDallas.org