No drupal experience necessary, although examples using drupal may be given. A cursory look at managing the content of your sites, including the planning processes and harnessing technology to make things easier for you.
So you can create a simple website with some static pages which need to individually maintained. What if you wanted to be able to create pages in a dynamic manner such as a News page which lists all latest news automatically, what if you also wanted to create a block on your home page which shows a teaser of the latest 5 news items.
This session will show you how to create different Views and how to implement them in various places throughout your website. It is recommended you also attend CCK for beginners if you are new to drupal prior to this session as CCK and Views are what opens the door for any type of site you could want to develop in drupal and compliment each other very well.
Drupal by default comes with a couple of Content Types which allow you to add fairly simple and generic "static" type pages. The CCK module allows you to define a range of unique content types with their own fields. For example an Event would have a Date and Location field. This session will also cover the Contemplate module, which allows you to easily define a template file for each each node that is rendered according to its content type.
The views for beginners session will expand on this session as it will show you how to render lists of content from your site based on CCK input.
WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get). Formatting text in a text field, you know those little bold, bullet and blockquote buttons? This is a real basic, how-to get those buttons over text fields for your end users.
Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for site maintainers and builders.
So you've got a website using another CMS and you want to switch to Drupal? Well with the new Migrate and Table Wizard modules the whole migration process is now relatively painless!
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