New to Drupal

What is a Content Type? Drupal, by default comes with a couple right out-of-the-box. We'll customize existing Content Types and talk about why you would want/need to create a new Content Type.

Rules is a big, scary module that everyone tells you is your best friend and totally easy once you figure it out.  Turns out it's true, and I'm here to help you get over the learning curve.  No coding required.

In this session, I'll explore a couple specific use cases where Rules can automate actions and make your life a lot less painful:

This session will talk through the basics of HTML, using WYSIWYGs (CKeditor in particular) and how to structure content for the web to improve readability, beauty, and accessibility. For those of you who attended last year or came to the Stanford Techie Festival session, no major changes!

The demo website can be found here: https://sites.stanford.edu/sws-demo-wysiwyg

How to do it and why you should: Everyone, from beginner site buiders on up, not only should, but can follow this best practice. This session will cover the basics of why and how to use dev and test sites, as well as demonstrating easy ways to do so using Drush.

This is a practical introduction to Drupal modules. Learn the basics of what modules are, when to use contributed modules, where to find them, why choose one over another, and — step-by-step— how to install or enable and uninstall modules in both Drupal 6 and 7. (There is more to it than just the checkboxes on the modules page!)