Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming Session #5

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By popular demand, we are adding a midweek Drupal CMS Academy web cast session to the agenda! Please join us during the live web cast to continue our discussion about all things Drupal. We are moving forward toward our goal of kicking off the Drupal online collaborative learning environment and we would love to hear your ideas during this live planning session!

Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming Session #4

Join us on Sunday - October 15, 2006*

5:30 p.m. GMT global times

Do you have a Drupal site up and running? Are you thinking about jumping in to the world of Drupal? Please join us in our next* Drupal CMS Academy community brainstorming session. As part of ongoing CMS Academy planning, we will discuss the nuts and bolts of how to install and administer a Drupal site. We look forward to hearing your questions, suggestions and hot tips about setting up and running Drupal.

p.s. If you can't make the live session, please check back to listen to the recording at http://www.cmsacademy.net/drupal/ or subscribe to the feed at http://www.cmsacademy.net/drupal.xml

* Please note that we won't be meeting on October 8 - Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Taxonomy Resources:

• Drupal Terminology on Drupal.org
• Taxonomy posts on lullabot.com

Taxonomy Considerations:

• How formal should the structure be?
• Free Tagging 

Resources:

• Lullabot screencast: Setting up site navigation

Site display and navigation:

• Menus:
•  Structure
• Creating new "menu on the fly"
• Blocks:
• What
• Where
• Themes:
• Main?
• User Selected?
  

Customization

Presentation of site content

Topic: Drupal CMS Academy Site Interface . . . and more!

Please join us as we continue community discussion on the Drupal CMS Academy. In this brainstorming session, we look forward to discussing ideas for enhancing the Academy's web site interface. The Academy runs on a Drupal installation, so we have a lot of options to create, layout and present content on the site. Please share your ideas regarding ways to enhance the site's navigation, content creation options, content display choices and more!

Topic: Modules, Widgets and Add-Ons

Drupal Lesson re: Modules discussed (summary linked here)