Do It With Drupal 2009
Lullabot's annual learning conference is Do It With Drupal and the second DIWD will be held at the New Orleans Marriott on December 9th, 10th, and 11th. For three days in historic New Orleans, attendees will get to meet and learn from some of Drupal's top developers, hear from community-building experts, examine successful Drupal sites, and meet other web professionals, developers, designers, and decision makers interested in expanding their Drupal knowledge.
Attend sessions on the nuts-and-bolts of architecting and building Drupal sites. See dissections of some of the most popular Drupal sites out there. Learn important topics such as the processes for building and grow successful Drupal websites.
The event is organized by Lullabot's team of experts and features some of the world's most well-respected Drupal developers, designers, and architects.
Find more information about this event and the video archive from last year's event at DoItWithDrupal.com.
Spring Workshops Series!
We are very pleased to announce our spring workshop series. Lullabot workshops are the best way to get comprehensive, hands-on instruction from the top Drupal experts!
Our first workshops of the season will be taking place in beautiful Portland, Oregon. From May 4th to 8th, we'll be teaching two days of Drupal Theming followed by Module Development. We would love to have you for the full week: register for both workshops and save! Early bird pricing in effect until April 13th, 2009.
Next, we'll be returning to Providence, Rhode Island from June 8th to June 12th. The week will begin a two day Module Development Workshop followed by three days of Theming and jQuery. Register for both workshops and save! Early bird pricing for Providence is in effect until May 8th, 2009 so don't delay!
In addition to detailed tutorials and hands-on exercises, all of our workshops are chock-full of tips, hints and best practices with plenty of time for Q&A. Come get the answers you need to make your Drupal projects a success!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us!
Lullabot's New Venture
Lullabot announced today the formation of a new company -- a joint venture between Lullabot, Bond Art + Science, and Ed Sussman, former president of Mansueto Digital. The new company will be launching an easy-to-use platform for groups, individuals and businesses to create powerful dynamic social websites. Historically, these sites required huge time commitments and expert developers; this platform will allow users to harness the power of Drupal and its wealth of add-ons with a streamlined point-and-click, drag-and-drop interface. With these tools, even newcomers will be able to build feature-rich multi-user websites that go beyond the boundaries of simple blog sites.
Lullabot will continue to provide all of the same consulting and educational services that they currently offer. The new company will be separate and distinct from Lullabot.
The members of the Lullabot team are recognized as experts in the Drupal platform, having guided the development of Drupal sites such LifetimeTV.com, Sony BMG Records' artist web platform, and FastCompany.com. Bond Art + Science are experts in user experience and interaction design. Their principal partners have during the course of their careers worked with clients such as the NYTimes.com, Microsoft, Nike, Fast Company and the Atlantic. Ed Sussman has left his position as the president of Mansueto Digital where his responsibilities included running FastCompany.com and Inc.com. He founded FastCompany.TV with Robert Scoble, IncBizNet.com and IncTechnology.com. He grew the company's revenue 600% in four years. He will become CEO in the newly-formed and yet-unnamed company.
"This project is all about taking the power of Drupal and distilling it into key choices and simple tools," said Sussman. "It's a huge leap beyond the rigid nature of turnkey products like Wordpress, Ning, but it avoids the 'infinite options paralysis' that newcomers can feel when experiencing Drupal's flexibility for the first time."
"Drupal has been challenging in the past," said Jeff Robbins, CEO of Lullabot. "It's our hope to make its power accessible to mere mortals."
"Lots of people want to build great websites but don't have the resources," said Karen McGrane, senior partner at Bond. "Our platform will create opportunities for ordinary people and small businesses that want websites as good as those of major corporations."
Further information will be released shortly. With questions, please contact ed (at) buzzr.com.
Do It With Drupal Seminar
Lullabot is pleased to announce our biggest event ever! Do It With Drupal is a 3-day seminar focused on the configuration, architecture, and process behind building successful Drupal websites. It takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 10-12, 2008 and features a cavalcade of superstars offering helpful advice, tips, and tricks geared at attendees with a wide range of Drupal experience.
This large-scale, 3-day learning event will take place at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, located at the edge of the city's historic French Quarter. The suites provide a stunning skyline view of downtown and the Mississippi River, and the hotel is steps away from Bourbon Street and other top attractions in the heart of New Orleans.
Do It With Drupal is our latest Lullabot training initiative, and features the following highlights:
- Examine and dissect successful Drupal sites
- Discover new site-building strategies
- Learn from Drupal's top developers
- Hear from community-building experts
- Connect with other Drupal professionals
- Expand your Drupal knowledge
We are thrilled to be bringing together key Drupal developers such as Earl Miles, Gabor Hojtsy, Moshe Weitzman, Karen Stevenson and Ryan Szrama along with technology and community experts such as John Resig, Heather Champ, Karen McGrane, Brian Oberkirch and Ed Sussman. Of course, our own fantastic team will all be there too!
For more information, including our list of confirmed speakers. and schedule, check out http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/ . Be sure to check out the official blog for more speaker and conference-related announcements.
Register now! Early bird pricing and hotel discounts are available. We hope to see you there!
Lullabot returns to Portland!
Join the team from Lullabot this fall in Portland, Oregon for a week of workshops!
Interested in making your Drupal site look not like a Drupal site? Check out our Theming and jQuery workshop to learn what you need to know to take control of your site's look and feel.
Is hacking PHP code more your speed? Then our Module Development and APIs workshop is for you. We will walk through the Drupal internals and show you how to add the features you need.
Of course we would love to have you with us for both workshops. Get your questions answered and learn the tips, tricks and best practices you need to be successful. Stay the full week and you will get a discount too!
Early bird pricing is in effect until August 22nd, 2008. Please contact us if you have any questions!
Understanding Drupal DVD On Sale Now
Understanding Drupal is the first video in The Lullabot Learning Series. This video provides an overview of Drupal as a content management system, as a PHP web application framework, and as a developer community. Its documentary-style exploration covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts for both site administrators and developers. If you've ever been confused by Drupal or are still trying to wrap your head around the community and platform, this video is intended as a roadmap to accelerate your journey up the Drupal learning curve.
Topics include:
- How content is entered and managed
- How users and user permissions are handled
- What blocks are and what they can do
- The concepts and capabilities of Drupal’s powerful module system
- How Drupal handles navigation and its menu system
- How themes alter the site layout, design, and presentation
- Site configuration and administrative messages and settings
- This video uses Drupal 6 for examples, however it is focused on general Drupal concepts rather than version-specific how to's.
Lullabot has guided such companies as MTV, Sony BMG Records, Lifetime Television, IBM, and Fast Company in building and growing their Drupal websites. Recognized as some of the most influential and well-respected developers, consultants, and educators in the Drupal community, the team is responsible for best-selling books, workshops, and seminars about Drupal.
Lullabots Addison Berry, Angela Byron, Jeff Eaton, Nathan Haug, Jeff Robbins, James Walker, and Matt Westgate sit down to tell us all about Drupal in this video directed and edited by Kent Bye.
DVDs are shipping now and a high-resolution download version is also available. A portion of profits from this video will be donated directly to the Drupal Association.
Summer Workshops by the Sea
Lullabot returns to Providence, Rhode Island this summer for one of our favorite workshop lineups in one of our favorite cities. Join us from July 7th to the 11th for a full week in which we will build a Drupal site from scratch.
The week will begin with our extremely popular Drupal Intensive. This is the ultimate training experience for understanding Drupal: what it can do and how to put it all together. We will be walk through the process of putting together a complete website in two days!
In Theming and jQuery, we will focus taking our newly assembled Drupal site and making it look not like a Drupal site. Learn how to do theming the right way and master your markup!
For the full experience, attend both workshops and get a complete understanding of how to build powerful and elegant websites. Stay the full week and you will get a discount too!
Early bird pricing is in effect until June 20th, 2008. Please contact us if you have any questions!
Lullabot in Canada, eh?
Now that the snow and ice have thawed, the team at Lullabot is looking forward to bringing our workshops to Canada! We will be brining our expert Drupal training to Toronto, Ontario from June 9th - 13th, 2008.
We will begin the week with a Drupal Intensive: a fantastic way to get in-depth understanding how to efficiently build and maintain your site. We'll be building a site without touching a line of code. Learn the best modules to use and how to best put them together!
The second half of the week will be spent focused on APIs and Module Development. If you want to learn more about how Drupal works "under the hood", this workshop will get you headed down the right path. We'll cover what you need to know to hone your coding ninja skills.
Of course, we recommend the full experience to get the whole picture. From picking your modules and getting them set up through to writing code to implement your own features, we'll give you the tools you need and a discount to go with it!
Come get your Drupal questions answered. We are offering early bird pricing until May 23rd, so act now! If you have any questions, please ask.
The Lullabots are invading the Twin Cities!
By popular demand, the Lullabot Team is on its way to the midwest to give you the skills you need to become a Drupal customization expert. Please join us for the Lullabots latest workshop series in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this May 5th - 9th...
In Drupal Theming and jQuery, working off an example site, we'll teach you how to tweak the way it looks and feels. We will address how to approach the implementation with Drupal, how those decisions affect theming tasks and making Drupal not look or act like Drupal.
If you are familiar with code but lack Drupal programming experience, the Drupal API and Module Development workshop, will take you to the next level. You will extend the functionality of an example site by adding additional features over the course of 2 days. You will improve the depth of your API knowledge as we discuss how Drupal works under the hood, providing the best practices from our experience.
Take full advantage of the Lullabots invasion --- we'll give you all the tools you need for customizing Drupal plus the know-how to add new features and control every aspect of the output. Register for both workshops and save!
We will be working with Drupal 6, but questions about other Drupal versions are always welcome. Don't hesitate to contact us. Early-bird pricing is in effect until April 18th and space is limited so register soon! You asked for it, you got it!
Lullabot Announces New DVD Training Series
Lullabot is pleased to announce The Lullabot Learning Series.
The first DVD in the series, scheduled to be released this Spring, is an introduction to key Drupal concepts, capabilities and the community behind this powerful website-building software.
Understanding Drupal will quickly get users up to speed with all of the pre-requisite terminology for working with Drupal. It's tightly-edited, documentary-style exploration covers all of the key fundamental concepts for both site administrators and developers. If you've ever been confused by Drupal or are still trying to wrap your head around the community and platform, then this video is for you. Understanding Drupal will provide you with an overarching roadmap that will accelerate your journey up through the Drupal Learning Curve.
You will also see the Lullabot team in action; with firsthand experience they demonstrate a diverse set of perspectives, providing deep insight into the inner workings of Drupal.
Specific topics include...
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