New Video Class: Drupal 8 Site Building
Now that you’ve completed the Drupal 8 Beginner class, it’s time to build your first real site and start exploring Drupal’s powerful modules and themes.
This week we’ve released the Drupal 8 Site Building class.
This class has over 50 videos that take you through the entire process of building a Drupal 8 site, using the OSTraining workflow:
- Plan
- Install
- Content
- Extend
- Layout
- People
- Manage
As you follow along with the class, you’ll build a site that uses custom content types, custom blocks, advanced Views and much, much more.
Outline of the Drupal 8 Site Building Class
Plan
- Introduction to the Class
- Planning Our Site
- Requirements and What’s New in Drupal 8
Install
- Setting up a New Site
- Installing Modules and Using Drush
- What is Drupal Site Building?
- Site Building Quickstart Exercise
Content
- Designing Structured Content
- Creating a New Content Type
- Setting up URLs for Drupal Content
- Adding Fields: Image, Link, Phone, Google Map
- Taxonomy: Creating a Vocabulary
- Adding Fields to Taxonomy Terms
- Adding Taxonomy to a Content Type
- User Profiles
- Add Fields to User Profiles
- Comments on Content Types
- Manage Display
- Using Devel to Populate Content
- Site Building Quiz 1
Extend
- Introduction to Modules
- Installing the Admin Toolbar Module
- Installing the Video Embed Module
- Installing the Views Slideshow Module
Layout
- Displays, Layout and Theming
- Display Modes
- Image Styles
- Custom Blocks
- Adding a Custom Block
- Introduction to Views
- Contextual Filters in Views
- Relationships in Views
- Advanced Relationship View
- Completing Views Slideshow
- Adding a Theme
- Creating a Custom Drupal Theme
- Display Suite and the Layout Plugin Module
- Managing Displays with Display Suite
- Other Fields in Display Suite
- Display Suite Custom CSS
- Update Your Front Page, Part 1
- Update Your Front Page, Part 2
- Update Your Front Page, Part 3
- Clean Up and Menus, Part 1
- Clean Up and Menus, Part 2
People
- Introduction to People
- Update Signup Configuration
- Add an Editor Role and Permissions
Managing
- Managing Your Site
- Updating Modules and Themes
- Caching
- Configuration Management
- Multilingual Sites
- Testing the Multilingual Distribution
- Conclusion
- Site Building Quiz 2
How to Take the Drupal 8 Site Building Class
If you’re an OSTraining member, you can click here to take the Drupal 8 Performance Class.
