Drupal Training in Chicago

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level website administrators who wish to efficiently manage a Backdrop CMS website without needing extensive coding knowledge.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install, configure, and maintain a Backdrop CMS website.
• Manage content, users, and permissions effectively.
• Customize the website layout and appearance.
• Extend website functionality using modules and themes.
• Perform backups and security best practices.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to build, extend, and customize websites using Backdrop CMS.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Backdrop CMS.
• Develop and customize themes.
• Build custom modules to extend functionality.
• Integrate third-party APIs and services.
• Manage databases and optimize performance.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level web content managers who wish to update content, manage menus, work with taxonomy, and upload PDFs or images in Drupal.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Drupal interface and understand key features.
• Create and manage menus to improve site navigation.
• Use taxonomy to categorize and organize content effectively.
• Upload and manage PDFs, images, and other media files.
• Edit and publish basic content pages for the library website.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level participants who wish to understand the fundamentals of Drupal 11 and learn how to build, manage, and customize websites using its features.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal 11 on local or cloud environments.
• Create and manage content using the Drupal interface.
• Customize the appearance of websites with themes.
• Extend website functionality with modules and plugins.
• Understand user roles, permissions, and site security basics.
• Deploy and maintain Drupal 11 websites effectively.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at sys admins who wish to set up and manage a Drupal 11 website.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal 11.
• Deploy, test and monitor a Drupal 11 website.
• Set up and manage users.
• Secure a Drupal 11 website.
• Optimize the performance of a Drupal 11 website.
• Perform scheduled backups.
• Deploy multiple versions of a Drupal 11 website (multilingual, mobile, etc.).

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to master Drupal 10, focusing on custom module creation, development practices, and integrating DevOps processes using Azure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core functionalities and new features of Drupal 10.
• Develop custom modules tailored to business needs.
• Implement best practices in Drupal development.
• Configure and manage development environments using Azure services.
• Automate deployment and scaling using Azure DevOps tools.

This course helps to clarify and implement Drupal convoluted translation system. It gives overview of available systems (Entity Translation, Content Translation, etc...), later practise the one chosen by the delegate. It covers both, content, interface, automatic translation and all other aspects needed to create professionally translatable sites.

This course is for people who are completely new to Drupal 7. It will lead you through the basics of running a simple community website with Drupal, where things are and what to expect.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level developers who wish to create custom modules, implement hooks, manage forms, and work with themes in Drupal 7.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Drupal 7 architecture and core components.
• Create custom modules and implement Drupal hooks.
• Build and validate forms using Drupal’s Form API.
• Customize themes and work with template files.
• Interact with the database using Drupal’s abstraction layer.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at sys admins who wish to set up and manage a Drupal 8 website.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal 8.
• Deploy, test and monitor a Drupal 8 website.
• Set up and manage users.
• Secure a Drupal 8 website.
• Optimize the performance of a Drupal 8 website.
• Perform scheduled backups.
• Deploy multiple versions of a Drupal 8 website (multilingual, mobile, etc.).

This course is for people who are completely new to Drupal 8. It will lead you through the basics of running a simple community website with Drupal, where things are and what to expect.

This course has been created for developers, architects, project managers interested in developing with Drupal 8 platform.

The participants will learn how to override existing functionality and how to write deployable modules.

This course deals with Drupal. The Drupal themes workshop enables the webdeveloper to create and modify Drupal Themes. Drupal Themes are very flexible, but only if you understand how the theme engines work. You will discover how to interactively change existing and create new themes from scratch. You will also learn basics of Twig template engine and how does Drupal 8 relate on it.

This course has been created for everyone interested in creating robust application with Drupal. It explains the "non-technical" site of Drupal, which allows you to build an application without any coding.

Drupal remains the most reliable and secure CMS, and with the release of Drupal 9, it is even more powerful for site builders and ambitious developers who are looking to build their websites on top of it.

Is Drupal 9/10 Learning Curve Steep:

The short answer? No. The long answer: Drupal becomes more and more user-friendly with every upgrade, so it has come a long way since it started nearly 20 years ago—and this newest version is no exception. Drupal 9 takes the tremendous technical power of Drupal and makes it even more accessible to regular users through improved ease of use.

By the end of this training, participants/delegates will be able to:

• Install and configure Drupal on localhost/apache and live server.
• Understand the core concepts/architecture of Drupal e.g Entities, taxonomies, views. 
• Drupal site building and modern approaches to building a robust site. 
• Drupal 9 Theme Development, starter kits, FED, and initiating themes using Gulp. 
• Component-based development approaches in Drupal

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Explains how to create responsive and adaptive design using Drupal. Usually we use most stable version of Drupal and Drupal modules.

This course tries to use Drupal modules to limit the amount of CSS or Javascript code which need to be written.

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