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Drupal 101

Your session in a few words: 
Drupal for absolute newbies
Date: 
September 2, 2009 - 11:20 - 12:10
Room: 
La Resserre
Track: 
From zero to hero
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Beginner
Language: 
English

This session will orient people on how to get started with Drupal. We'll address installation using the Acquia Drupal Stack installers, then dive into some fundamentals such as:

- how does Drupal work (at a very high level)
- how do you begin to build a site. Adding pages, inserting navigation
- how do create roles and grant privileges
- how do you extend Drupal's features (finding and installing modules)
- how do you create ad's or specific call outs on your site
- how can you organize information on a page - like show a list of events
- how do you theme a drupal site.