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video2brain – Drupal Power Workshop

Genre: Video Tutorial / Web design

Although simple to use, the content management system Drupal offers some powerful tools to help you build highly sophisticated websites. In this workshop developer and trainer Joe Chellman shows you how to incorporate advanced functionality like views, calendars, the Display Suite module, news, polls, surveys, forms, panels, and social media integration to your basic Drupal site so you can customize it to suit your needs. You’ll learn how to use some of the best contributed modules from the Drupal community and even how to create your own module. In the process you’ll build the development skills you need to build websites of any kind.

Content:
Please Welcome Cash Bacon
Where We’re Starting, Where We’re Going
Software Needed for This Course
Importing the Drupal Files
Importing the Database
Logging In and Setting UpViews: Superpowered Lists of Content
What Is the Views Module?
Creating a Basic News Page
Making a New Records Page
Refining the Records Page

Listing Shows with Date, Calendar, and Views
Improving the Shows Section with Date Modules
Adding a Show Content Type with a Date Field
Adding More Shows with Devel Generate
Making an Upcoming Shows Page
Customizing Field HTML
Creating a Past Shows Page
Grouping Upcoming and Past Shows with Tabs
Creating an Upcoming Shows Block
Making a Calendar Page

Revisiting News and Views
Adding Exposed Filters to a News Page
Making a Contextual Filter for Authors
Creating an Authors Summary Block
Relationships: Tying in More Data
Creating a Topics Page and Summary

Display Suite: Powerful Content Display
What Is Display Suite?
Changing a Node View
Using View Modes and Views
Using Display Suite Fields
Using Display Suite Dynamic Fields
Using Field Templates

The Webform Module: Surveys, Contact Forms, and More
Webform vs. the Core Contact Module
Making a Contact Webform
Creating a Fan Poll
Saving Time with Form Builder

Panels: Codeless Control of Full Page Layouts
What Are Panels and Grammar?
Creating a Panels-Based Home Page
The Page Manager UI
Gotcha: Blocks Visibility vs. Panels
Organizing the Node Add/Edit Page

Social Network Integration
Adding a Widget from Twitter.com
Installing and Configuring the Twitter Module
Making a Tweets Block with Views
Facebook Integration Options
Installing and Configuring the Activity Stream Module
Making a Facebook Status Updates Block
Installing the Facebook PHP SDK
Using Facebook for Comments

Further Customizations: Theme and Module
The Theme(s) We’re Using
Making Some Small CSS Changes
Why Write a Module?
Hooks and the Drupal API
Starting to Write Your Module
Making the Module Actually Do Something
Enabling and Testing the New Module
Where to Look for More Information