Author Tom Geller demonstrates how to create and publish a complete web site with the powerful tools in Acquia's hosted service, Drupal Gardens. The course shows how to leverage the pre-built page layouts and add custom styling using the ThemeBuilder tool; integrate rich site features, such as surveys, user ratings, and media galleries; and push content to Twitter and Facebook. The course also covers transitioning from a Drupal Gardens site to a self-hosted Drupal site. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
- Creating and managing content and content types
- Embedding videos and other media
- Publishing and subscribing to RSS feeds
- Setting up blocks, banners, menus, and forms
- Allowing users to rate content
- Managing comments and spam
- Tracking site usage
- Collecting feedback with web forms
- Duplicating and deleting sites
- Adding custom domains
- Changing the site's main logo and favicon
- Adding visual effects with JavaScript libraries
- author
- Tom Geller
- subject
- Web + Interactive, CMS + Blogs
- software
- Drupal Gardens
- level
- Appropriate for All
- duration
- 6h 6m
- released
- Jan 05, 2011
- updated
- Nov 10, 2011
- DVD
- purchase
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