How to Build Drupal 8 Sites
OSTraining
Course Summary
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.
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Course Description
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, advanced Views
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, Drupal and Moodle 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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Course Syllabus
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
