Drupal Global Training Day: Introduction to Drupal

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Drupal Global Training Day (https://www.drupal.org/learn-drupal) is a worldwide training day designed to introduce people to the Drupal project.

The aim of the Global Training Day is to bring a student from no-Drupal knowledge to a place where they can choose to be a developer, themer, designer, site architect, engineer, etc.

During this 1 day workshop, we will be sharing with you fundamental Drupal concepts that are easy to understand. You will be equipped with best practices and tips that will help you become familiar with Drupal and use it for your next project.

Come join us for an engaging day to meet your new friend, Drupal.

And it's totally FREE!! :)

Whom is the workshop for?
Experienced web professionals who are interested in Drupal but have not started or don’t know where to start.

Project managers, account servicing, front-end developers, visual designers who wants to know if Drupal is suitable for your next project.

Anybody who is just enthusiastic about learning web technology!

What will you learn?
What is Drupal and why it matters
Fundamentals of using Drupal
How Drupal handles and manages content
Common Drupal Terminologies
Drupal file structure
Commonly used modules to extend Drupal
Drupal Themes and theming
Drupal as a career for developer

What do you need to know before coming?
Familiar with building websites on a local environment eg. http://localhost will be extremely beneficial.

Some basic understanding of what a common website is made up of, eg. web server (apache), HTML, CSS, Database (MySQL), PHP etc

What to bring along?
Your laptop, Windows / Mac / Linux
Pen / Paper or Notepad to take down notes
Drinking bottle (water is available for refill)
An open mind to explore new things!

About Presenter / Facilitator
Joe Chin (http://sg.linkedin.com/in/jchin1968)
Joe has been a long time big Drupal fan. He has done so many projects with Drupal from personal website to professional. Joe is also very active in Drupal Community, and been presenting lots of talks in many Drupal events through out South East Asia.

Pratomo Ardianto (Ardi) (http://sg.linkedin.com/in/ardnet/)
Ardi is senior web developer working at X-Team (http://x-team.com/). He has years of experience working with Drupal, developing websites for start-up companies to corporates. Ardi is also very active in Drupal Community, and been giving few talks in Drupal Meetups and Drupal Camp Singapore.

Got Questions?
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