Tech Nomads February meetup: Site Building with Drupal Core

Tech Nomads is a monthly meetup where you can connect with others interested in programming and the tech industry. The meetups will give you an opportunity network, share ideas, learn from each other and write some code.

We're excited to have Jeni Tehan of Delicious Creative as our guest speaker for our February meetup with a workshop on Site Building with Drupal Core!

Learn how to build a fully functional members website that allows your users to post blogs, photo galleries, or other content without writing one line of code.

This workshop will walk you through building a bespoke application through Drupal’s UI from start to finish. We’ll create and configure storage for your content, create custom lists to show your content, allow registered users to add their own content, and more.

We’ll only be using Drupal core to build our site and won’t be relying on third party add-ons to provide any pre-built features or functionality. We’ll cover core concepts of Drupal site building, learning the basics of the structure of a Drupal website, using tools that Drupal provides out of the box. This will include:

• User registration
• User roles and permissions
• Content types
• Fields
• Media
• Display modes
• Layouts
• Menus
• Blocks
• Taxonomy
• Views

An online Drupal installation will be provided for each person attending so you can build your own site during the workshop. There’s no need to configure your own development environment or install anything to participate. All you need is a laptop to follow along.

Drupal is one of the most advanced and mature Content Management Systems (CMS) available. It’s free and open source, and is used by some of the largest websites in the world. It’s the go-to CMS of choice for enterprise applications, government organisations and educational institutions. It’s known for being powerful, secure, and flexible. Drupal is used to power ecommerce sites, headless web apps, social networks, in-flight entertainment systems, informational kiosks and anything else you can deliver online. Learn more at https://www.drupal.org

Sponsors

TechNomads are proudly sponsored by Collabco.

Collabco is an organisation who create immersive and engaging digital environments for everyone. Building customisable dashboards that collect, display and push information from disparate IT systems. They are a dedicated team with a passion for software development and systems innovation. Harnessing emerging technologies they create tailored experiences with bespoke software that delivers value.

Partners

InnovateHer is our delivery partner. We’re proud to be partnering with InnovateHer & supporting their mission to get more #girlsintech!