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New Video Announcement: Site Building With Drupal
Blog by Jeff RobbinsNovember 3, 2009 - 9:54am
Announcing Site Building With Drupal
How to install, customize, configure, and launch a Drupal site
This is it! Site Building With Drupal is the definitive guide to Drupal website creation. In this densely-packed 4 hour and 45 minute video, Addison Berry, Angela Byron, and Jeff Robbins illustrate Drupal's concepts and define its jargon while building a complete website from the ground up.
The team shows how to install Drupal, add modules, create and configure content types, build listing pages, and configure Drupal's multi-user permission system. You'll see how to use Drupal's taxonomy system to classify and organize your site's content, how to create and configure sidebar content using blocks, and many common tasks such as setting up a rich-text editor. Also discussed are tips for choosing which contributed modules to use, how to create private content, and how to launch a site.
This video pairs well with Administering Drupal, which shows how to administer this site once it has been created.
Early release pricing: Site Building With Drupal is now available for download at an early release price of $55. That's more than 25% off the normal price. But don't delay. This price is only available for the first few weeks while we wait to get the DVD version back from the pressing plant. When the DVD comes in, this price will go up.
Comments
List of modules used in the video
Someone was asking which modules are used in the video, and so I thought I'd post the list here in case anyone else was wondering.
Prices too high
Hi guys, just wanted to let you know that your videos are great. What I can't do is recommend them to others because of the high prices. You've probably done some market analysis about how much you think you can get for them vs. the very niche target audience vs. whatever, but it's well out of my price range, and I hope you guys run some specials on these before all of the content becomes outdated.
"Using Drupal" the book was great, but I just can't suggest this video series as a companion to other folks because of the (high) triple digits dollars one would need to learn drupal from it.
Don't worry about publishing this comment, it's not really even for public consumption, more for the lullabots.
Thanks for all that you do for Drupal!
I'm wondering how much you'd
I'm wondering how much you'd pay for a day of training? Watching the theming videos took me about thrice as long as their running time because I kept stopping to run through the examples and implement suggestions while watching them. I wish this one had been available a year ago when I was still trying to figure out the installing and administering on my own :)
My only suggestion would be to have a companion PDF with exercises to reinforce the talk.
woops!
Unmoderated comments? I love Mollom.
More Information Than on Drupal Site?
Does the Video provide more information that what is already documented in Drupal?
More Information Needed in Order to Make a Decision
I apologise for not being more specific in my original question. I admit my query was very vague. However, your description of the video content is not very specific either.
After looking over the Full chapter listing for this video, I would say that the majority of subjects listed there is well covered in Drupal documentation and in other videos available elsewhere for free.
What is often difficult to find is information on how to work around various Drupal core and contributed modules caveats.
I would find it very helpful if you could expand the description of each chapter and give us a better idea of what level of details to expect from the video.
Thank you for adding the list of modules used in the video, that is a good start.