Professional Development

Discover the versatility Blocks add to your OSU Drupal 6 site!  Create menus, display content, and utilize add-ons for increased functionality. 

This workshop is geared for the intermediate level Drupal 6 user and covers the following topics:

• Blocks
  • What Blocks Are and How They Work
  • Relationship Between Blocks and Menus 
    • Configuring & Enabling Default Blocks
    • Creating Custom Blocks
    • Setting Role and Page Visibilities
  • Relationship Between Blocks & Themes
    • Understanding Regions for Theme Changes
• Menus
  • What Menus Are and How They Work
  • Understanding Default Menus
  • Creating Custom Menu Blocks
• Nice Menus
  • What Nice Menus Is and How It Works
  • Nice Menus Configuration
  • Enabling & Configuring Nice Menus Blocks
• Beyond Menus
  • Using Blocks For Added Functionality
    • Announcement Blocks
    • Latest Poll Block
    • Feeds Display Blocks
  • OSU Drupal Features
    
  • Video Carousel with Lightbox Block configs
• Final Layout
• Using Contextual Links
  

This workshop is part of a progressive instructional series and utilizes or builds on content developed in previous workshops.  Completion of the following workshops in the order shown is strongly recommended:

1. Drupal 6 Basics
2. Drupal 6 Content Types
3. Drupal 6 Developing Site Structures

An OSU Drupal 6 personal training site is required.  Contact CWS at x71189 for further information.