Sunday, September 30, 2012

Drupal Workshop @ IT-ology

IT-ology often offers free workshops in various tech areas.  On Saturday, September 22, 2012 they offered a workshop on Drupal.  Drupal is an open source content management system and framework that is in use in about 2% of the world's websites.  It allows people to put together websites without having any programming experience.

The workshop ran from 9am to 4pm.  It seemed kind of bad at first and I was a little hesitant to sign up for it because it was an all day workshop.  Turns out, the time flew by quickly and it also gave me a chance to network with other attendees.

The workshop was interesting.  But around about the 1:00 hour I was a little lost on the more difficult parts.  I found it hard to follow the instructor after a certain point because he was going really fast.  I realized that most of the people in the workshop were already users of Drupal and were there to get help on working on their websites.  I think this made the workshop different from what I expected because the instructor went into more difficult areas very quickly.  I looked around the room and was relieved to see that I wasn't the only one that seemed a little confused.  I think if follow the instructions in the pamphlet that was given then everything will be much more clear.  I haven't had time to do that as of yet though, but it's on my to-do list.

Anyway, the objectives of the workshop were:

  • Configure your site name and slogan (Did that)
  • Create a static block of text (Did that)
  • Add new content (Did that)
  • Add a webform to collect information from visitors (Did that)
  • If you have time, add a banner (Didn't do that)
I guess overall, I did complete all the objectives, I just don't feel as if I gained much from the workshop.  It was interesting though.

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