Training with Growing Venture Solutions

I attended the Introduction to Drupal 6 training offered by Growing Venture Solutions and learned some useful things:

• Global Redirect and Path Redirect modules help you link to nodes in the body of a node


• Synonyms module indexes synomyms in Taxonomy


• Porter-Stemmer module breaks a search term down to its basic root


• You can create automated URL aliases using Pathauto


• Markdown filter may make a good UI for our staff


• Devel module's Theme developer is a very useful tool for theming


• It's not hard to add a new region within a theme


• Module development, while complicated in practice, is not that complicated in theory


• Don't use PHP Filter, in fact, delete it from the core modules directory


• Watch your input formats and file permissions


• Eclipse, FireBug, and YSlow, are good programs for development and performance monitoring

Most importantly, PPLD has decided to hire Growing Venture Solutions on a consultant basis during the redesign. We're thrilled to get help from Greg and his team!

Drupal Training with Growing Venture Solutions

I'm in Drupal training for the next 3 Saturdays with Growing Venture Solutions. I've upgraded vfranklyn.com to 6.8 so I can use it as a sandbox for the class. Notes I take on this training will likely be found here:

http://vfranklyn.com