Building a Drupal 7 site - from installation to full real life site

Building a Drupal 7 site - from installation to full real life site

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With Drupal 7 just around the corner (beta releases are planned for July), this session will demonstrate the creation of a simple real life site. The session starts with site sketching and a core Drupal 7 install and ends with a production-ready website.

In this session you will learn how to create a Drupal site that has:

• a blog & news section
• a product section with image gallery
• client interaction - (contact page, forum and simple mailing list)
• a custom front page (with the help of views, blocks and a little custom css)
• basic SEO configuration

Session plan

• Planning the look & function of the site
• Selection of core and contributed modules
• Drupal 7 basic installation - from database creation to a basic Drupal site
• Drupal 7 site admininstrator's basics - content & users management, site configuration, modules and themes
• Visual look - theme installation
• Blog & news section - fields, wysiwyg editor with simple image and video embed support
• Views introduction
• Product section with product image gallery support
• Basic SEO configuration
• Home page tweaks with a little css
• Contact page
• Forum creation
• Setting a simple mailing list
• What can you do next?

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