Drupal Camp 2012

NOTE: This website is an archive of the 2012 Stanford Drupal Camp. The current year's Stanford Drupal Camp website is at http://drupalcamp.stanford.edu

Drupal for NonGeeks

Speaker(s): 

If you will never write a line of PHP code but need to understand how Drupal works, this session is for you. We'll focus on a high-level, conceptual understanding of the Drupal framework. The goal of this session is to enable nonGeeks to make decisions about applying Drupal to their real world challenges and talk to developers (in their language).

Bring your questions. We'll discuss the primary nonGeek roles related to Drupal and find out how this session can help you.

Topics:

  • What is a CMS?
  • What is Drupal, isn't it a CMS?
  • Core, modules, themes -- how do they go together.
  • Why do I care what a "hook" is?
  • Why are some hard things easy and some easy things hard (aka, expensive)?

And a few basics:

  • What is a node (content) and how can it be expanded?
  • What are blocks and their common usage?
  • What are Views and why does almost every site use them?
  • How are connections between different kinds of content created?
  • How are more complex pages (with varying kinds of content) created?
Experience level: 
Beginner
Time slot: 
4 May 16:00 - 17:00
Slides (upload): 
Room: 
Room 180