Learn Drupal 7 with NodeOne

Submitted by Johan Falk on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 11:29
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Learn Drupal 7! It is powerful, flexible, inspirational – and fun. However, it may also be difficult to know where to start. Drupal is big and complex, and if you don't know the basics you may get stuck on the silliest things. Don't get stuck! Watch this learning series and get a solid start on your Drupal journey.

Some two months ago I started the screencast series Learn Drupal 7 with NodeOne, introducing the basics of Drupal 7. The series was concluded today, fifteen screencasts and 3000+ plays later. This post summarizes the series content and some reactions on it.

The intended audience

This learning series was made for people new to Drupal, who have heard about the most powerful CMS on earth and would like to get started without getting stuck – or just get an overview of what you can do with it. There are pointers to additional modules and extra fun here and there, but the series itself covers Drupal core only.

Also – if you're familiar with Drupal 6 but haven't started with Drupal 7 yet, you could use the last episodes of the series to get a good overview of the most important news.

The content of the series

The series could be divided into three parts:

  1. Editorial skills. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 covers content handling – how to create and edit content, and find your way around content management in Drupal core.
  2. Site administrator skills. Episodes 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are of use for people with some administration tasks on the site – they show how to manage users and permissions, handle menus, place blocks on your site and make them show on the right occations, and a few more things.
  3. Site builder skills. Episodes 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are useful only for people working with developing Drupal sites. The main focus is on fields – including image and taxonomy handling – but there are also some words on text formats and things like clearing cache and running cron.

A few comments on the series

Thanks to all you people viewing and commenting!

YES!! Now I am getting closer to rule Drupal, like it better then joomla so far.   hi, thanks for your series. they’re invaluable for people climbing the learning curve […] Keep up the good work, I would like to contribute but first I must learn it myself. :)   I’m just getting into Drupal and these podcasts are are very handy.   I knew the basics of Drupal already, but found the “Learn Drupal 7” series to be a great review, filling in some gaps.

Want more?

If you're already a Drupal developer, then you should know about the upcoming learning series on using Page manager (with Panels or other modules). It will be published when the Views series is over, which will take a few more weeks. As previously stated, I will mock anyone calling himself/herself a Drupal developer without knowing Page manager by then. (Don't say I didn't warn you!)

You can always read more about Drupal at the following places: