I'll be teaching a session of "Hello Drupal" for the Open IT Lab at IT-Ology in Columbia, next Saturday, March 17, 2012, 9:30 - noon. If you've never been to IT-Ology, you should definitely check it out. It is a state of the art high tech training facility.
Below is the content of the flyer that's being used to promote the session: DESCRIPTION Considering a career in web development? This workshop will introduce the open source Drupal content management system and framework, in use by about 2% of the world's websites, including whitehouse.gov, economist.com, and dev.twitter.com. SC Drupal User Group Leader Tom Sliker will lead this hands-on workshop to get you going with Drupal. Drupal has both a point and click interface to allow tech-savvy people to put together websites with no programming experience; and it also has an API and framework for programmers to develop unique applications. And it's all free--it's open source. WHAT ATTENDEES WILL LEARN Explain how a typical site is built in Drupal, and explain the page-model in Drupal. Use Drupal specific terminology such as !elds, views, node, block, page. Determine what skills you need to develop to reach your goals. Know where to go to !nd career opportunities in Drupal. REQUIREMENTS Knowledge of HTML & CSS preferred. LENGTH OF TIME 2 hrs COST Free For more information: Contact Diedre Murphy with IT-oLogy Hello Drupal is provided by Acquia.
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