London Drupal course information

Date: Friday, 26th November
Time: 9:00am till 5:00pm (including lunch and breaks)
Location: Shoreditch Trust, Units 1-2 Waterhouse, 8 Orsman Road, London, N1 5QJ
Cost: £346.62 (includes VAT - 10% discount available for charities, BIMA, RSA and Intellect members)

London Drupal course synopsis

Drupal is a powerful CMS solution on its own - but the add-on modules of Views and CCK take that flexibility to a whole new level. Brought to you by BrightLemon ™, this training day is dedicate to turning you into an expert of how to integrate the two modules to get a lot done quickly.

Who's suitable for this Drupal course?

This course is suitable for web developers and web designers that are already familiar with the basic concepts of Drupal and what to take it to the next level.

It is also suitable for Drupal web site administrators wanting to increase their understanding of maintaining a Drupal web site.

Delivery and content

• Brief Introduction and Overview
• Content Construction in Drupal
• The Content Construction Kit
• Basic fields types (text, decimal, float, integer)
• The structure of fields and where they fit in Drupal
• Field widgets and Field formatters
• Single / Multiple value Fields, shared Fields
• Node Reference and User Reference Fields
• File (and image) Fields
• Fine-grained access control for fields
• Building Views of Content
• The building blocks of Views
• The building blocks of Views
• View Filters
• View Arguments
• Exposing filters
• Views Displays
• Views Attachments
• Theming a view
• Saving and re-using views
• Helpful modules for Views

What do I need to know beforehand?

A basic understanding of Drupal.

What do I need to bring?

A laptop with ethernet connectivity - the course is hands-on. We will work with websites online.

Payment and costs

• £346.62 companies/individuals (includes VAT)
• £623.92 for both the introduction and Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK course (10% discount for booking both courses together). For more information on the Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK course course please view Advanced Drupal development with Views and CCK

Who is your teacher?

Ronald Ashri has over 12 years of experience in web and distributed networking application development. Previous to focusing full-time on Drupal-based development he was a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton collaborating with a variety of industry research departments such as British Telecom Labs, SRI International and IT Innovation.

He has authored and and co-authored a variety of books and articles including "Agent-Based Software Engineering", "Professional Java Mobile Programming", "Professional Java E-commerce".

For the past 3 years Ronald has been focusing exclusively on web application development using Drupal. He has worked on a range of Drupal websites from e-commerce, to intranets, integrations with legacy back-ends and social networking sites and is an active member of the wider Drupal community.

Ronald holds a PhD in Computer Science from Southampton University and a BSc from Warwick University.

Terms and conditions

• All cancellations must be no later than 3 weeks prior to the event date. Such cancellations are subject to a handling and administration charge of £100 + VAT per place.
• The company regrets that no cancellations are acceptable within 21 days of the event date but a replacement can be made.
• BrightLemon reserves the right to make changes to the programme, venue, and speakers without prior notice. In the event of a terrorist alert or any other incident BrightLemon will not offer refunds to delegates unless the event is cancelled in which case BrighLemon Ltd will retain up to 50% of the ticket cost.

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