Drupal 8 Site Building

Now that you’ve completed the Drupal 8 Beginner classes, it’s time to build your first real site and start exploring Drupal’s powerful modules and themes.

This Site Building class takes 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.

Uses custom content types, custom blocks, and advanced Views.

Course Content

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 2 Quizzes

Expand

Lesson Content

Site Building Quiz 1

Introduction to Modules

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About Instructor

Rod Martin

Rod holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations. His extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and he really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose. Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorcycle pretty much everywhere he can.

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Drupal 8 Site Building

Course Content

Plan

About Instructor

Rod Martin

Course Includes