drupal 6 Administration Training Program Outline

Drupal Introduction

• A leading CMS (Content Management System)
• What do you need to run Drupal? An overview of Drupal requirements

Drupal Capabilities

• Some key Drupal terms to assist with the learning curve
• Know you way around the Drupal User Interface

Installation

• How to install Zend server on your local computer
• Setting up the database. Learn how to set up a MySQL database for your CMS
• Download and installation of the Drupal CMS
• Troubleshooting your installation of the Drupal Content Management System

Tweaking Your CMS

• Clean URLs allow for search engine friendly URLs
• Backing up your installation
• Restoring from back up.  Learn to restore your CMS to a previous back up
• How to update Drupal to a newer release

Drupal Admin

• An introduction to the Drupal administration menu
• How to input your Site Information
• Learn how to theme the look and feel of your CMS
• Learn how to add and place blocks
• Working with Drupal databases
• MySQL with PHPMyAdmin

Managing User Accounts

• Setting up security and permissions for your sites user base
• Working with site access
• How to create and manage Users
• Managing and customizing user profiles
• How to set up sitewide user contact forms

Customizing Your Site

• Creating a basic page with the Drupal CMS
• Working with your page layout
• How to create content in Drupal
• How to add and manage blocks
• Managing content using categories with taxonomy

Creating Content

• Creating Drupal nodes
• How to create different types of content
• Adding fields and managing Drupal content types
• Setting up and writing Blogs
• How to create and manage forums with Drupal

Content Management

• Categorizing content with taxonomy
• Output your sites content with RSS feeds
• Managing user comments on your content

Theming and CSS

• Configuring Drupal themes to change your sites lay out
• Changing your sites theme
• Finding and implementing Drupal themes on the web
• Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Modules

• Finding contributed Drupal modules
• Installing Drupal modules on your website
• Configuring your modules

Modules You Can't Live Without

• Automatic Updates
• CCK - The Content Construction Kit
• Views
• Image Cache

Navigation

• Learn how to customize and manage Drupals menu system
• Categorize and lay out content using the book module

PHP

• Managing Drupal content templates with PHP
• Using the PHP programming language with the Drupal CMS
• Using PHP snippets

Launching Your CMS

• Launching your CMS
• Become a part of the Drupal Community at drupal.org

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