In three days, participants will build from scratch a rock solid, commercially supported, aesthetically pleasing community website with an online store, without writing a single line of custom code. Book now !
Course Objectives:
The course project will be to create a community and e-commerce website for a band based on Acquia Drupal and Ubercart that includes the following features:
Blogs
Audio and video content
Tour dates and event calendar
Fan forums
Ubercart store:
t-shirts and other apparel
music downloads
access to premium content
event registration
Who? When? Where? How Much?
Instructors:
Ubercart
: Ryan Szrama
CommerceGuys
: Mike O'Connor
CommerceGuys
: Tim Hill
AF83
: Joeri Poesen
When:
Wed May 27 (9:00AM - 5:00PM)
Thursday May 28 (9:00AM - 5:00PM)
Friday May 29 (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
(incl. 1-hour lunch break)
Where:
Marriott Springhill Suites Chicago Downtown River North
There is a group discount code for $99 per night for the evenings of the 26, 27, 28, and 29th. They will email you the code after registration. Registration and hotel booking needs to be done by April 24th.
The hotel is a 45 minute train ride from O'Hare, or a 30 minute train ride from Midway.
Cost:
$750 per participant
Course availability strictly limited - maximum 16 participants.
Course Overview:
Approaching and planning an e-commerce project, choosing features and identifying pitfalls.
Building a community website in a few hours using Acquia Drupal.
Implementing an online store using Ubercart.
Making it look great with a commercial-grade theme from
TopNotch Themes
.
Expertise level - Easy/Medium:
To fully benefit from this course, you should be comfortable setting up and administering Drupal 6.x websites and administering users, roles, permissions and vocabularies. You should be familiar with using CCK to create customized content types and be at least familiar with the Views module (version 1 or 2).
No coding required! We will not be writing custom code during the workshop but we might show some code snippets here and there that could help you out.
Schedule:
Day 1:
Introduction
Drupal fundamentals: nodes, taxonomy, CCK
Views: introduction, principles, examples, the power of Views 2
Views continued
Workshop/Exercises
Day 2:
Ubercart: introduction, history, principles
Installing and configuring Ubercart
Organizing products with the Ubercart catalog
Enabling shipping quotes and taxes
Day 3:
Accepting credit card payments
Selling:
physical products
downloads
site access
event registration
Setting up discounts and vouchers
Course Extras (demo only):
Faceted search and content recommendation with ApacheSolr Search module
Customer rewards with the Userpoints module
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