Drupal Site Building & Tools for Digital Asset Management

The Drupal content management system is known for its flexibility. Drupal can be used for many types of websites, from corporate websites and media portals to e-commerce sites, community forums, and intranets. Drupal’s media management features are also very powerful, and integrating a DAM (Digital Asset Management) with Drupal has the added benefit of being able to reuse your digital assets across platforms. 

This course will give you a run-through of the Drupal site building process. You'll get hands-on experience creating an information architecture for Drupal, as well as learning how to leverage media management and Acquia DAM on top of Drupal. 

Learning Objectives

You'll come away from the course with knowledge of:

  • How to add powerful functionality to Drupal using core and contrib
  • Considerations for planning and structuring content
  • Differences between entity types
  • Selecting and installing contributed modules
  • How to configure key contributed modules
  • How to set up Drupal media management
  • When it’s useful to set up a DAM on top of Drupal and how to use it to create more consistency and save time across your organization
Prerequisites

Who Will Get the Most Out of This Course

This course is ideal for site builders, developers and newcomers to Drupal who want to be able to configure Drupal effectively.

Jesse Dyck
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Marien Regnault

Former journalist, I transitioned to web development in 2020. I've been working with Drupal ever since.

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Martin Anderson-Clutz

Now based in London, Ontario, Martin grew up in Montreal and lived for a time in Toronto. In late 2005 Martin started using the Drupal CMS and found it powerful and easy to work with. He began attending meetings of Drupal User Groups in Toronto and Waterloo, Ontario, eventually starting a group in London. Currently employed by Acquia, Martin is now Triple Certified for Drupal as well being certified for a variety of other Acquia products, in addition to being UX certified by the world-renowned Nielsen Norman Group. Martin has spoken at various user groups, local Drupalcamps, and Drupalcons. He has also appeared on the Talking Drupal podcast as a guest and host, and has blogs published on OpenSource.com and a handful of other sites.

Time Slot
9:30am to 4:30pm (3/14/24)
Room
Classroom 015 (Level 0)
Session Category
Site-Building
Who Should Attend
Back-end Developers
Everyone
Front-end Developers
Site Builders

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