DrupalCon Austin will offer professional, hands-on training on a variety of Drupal subjects by world-class Drupal trainers on Monday, June 2.
For a limited time, the cost of attending a training is $400.00 plus applicable tax and includes a full day of professional training, breakfast, lunch, and breaks. This special offer ends May 2, 2014 at 11:59pm Austin time, so don't wait to register. That's $75 you could be putting towards completing your office bean bag forest!
New for Austin: Prepaid Training
Great for teams and admins who haven't quite selected *which* training to attend but want to secure the $400 special rate. Simply purchase this prepay ticket, and we'll send a code so your attendee can register for the training they want to attend. It's like buying a gift certificate - for training!
View training courses by experience level: Beginner | Intermediate | Advanced
Beginner
Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal
This class really is aimed at absolute Drupal beginners. You'll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate, build, and use a Drupal site.
Company: OSTraining
Drupal Version: 7.x
Breaking Down Component-Based Web Design
Experienced front end developers spontaneously transform static design files into complete Drupal themes without realizing all of the little steps their brain takes to achieve the final solution. In this session you'll learn, and get to practice, the step-by-step strategies and techniques needed to pull apart a static design file, and rebuild it as a Drupal theme.
Company: Drupalize.Me
Drupal Version: 8.x
Drupal for Beginners
The focus of this training is to give you a chance to connect with an army of Drupal experts one-on-one about anything you need help learning or accomplishing in Drupal 6, 7 or even Drupal 8. Having trouble understanding a concept? There will be someone to help explain it in a way you can understand.
Company: BuildAModule
Drupal Version: 7.x, 8.x
UX Bootcamp: Evaluating and Improving Your Web Sites
How do you really know what your users want? How do you ensure your designs work for users? Over the course of the day, you'll learn all of the steps to conduct your own usability tests, including how to plan the tests, recruit users, facilitate the sessions, analyze the data, and communicate the results.
Company: Acquia
Drupal Version: N/A
Intermediate
Drupal 8 for Drupalistas
Are you a site builder, themer, or backend developer who is comfortable with Drupal 7 (or 6) and worried about gearing up for Drupal 8? Want a headstart? This course will save you self-study time by walking you through D8 in a day. You'll build a site, getting a hands on experience of the anticipated Drupal 8 changes, and dive deeper into your own speciality.
Company: Amazee Labs
Drupal Version: 8.x
Drupal Performance and Scalability with The Dream Team
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site.
Company: The Dream Team
Drupal Version: 7.x
Introduction to Symfony2: Getting Ready for D8
This comprehensive introduction to Symfony2 will help experienced and new PHP developers understand the power and flexibility of Drupal 8's new development framework. With hands on exercises throughout the day-long training, participants will learn basic Symfony2 concepts, build simple applications, and explore how Symfony2 is used in Drupal 8.
Company: Blink Reaction
Drupal Version: 8.x
Introduction to the Symfony Core Components
This one day hands on training will help you to get started with most of the Symfony2 Core Components used by Drupal 8 and to learn some of the best object oriented design best practices. During the workshop, you will build a small PHP web application by introducing the Symfony Core Components.
Company: SensioLabs
Drupal Version: N/A
Launching an Online Store with Commerce Kickstart
In this course, you will learn how to launch your next online store with Drupal Commerce from project creators Commerce Guys. Through a series of alternating lessons and hands-on exercises, you will install Commerce Kickstart in an optimized hosting environment, customize it, and prepare to launch your own fantasy store during this day long training.
Company: Commerce Guys
Drupal Version: 7.x
Level Up your Themer
In this course we'll start you off at the ground floor of Drupal 7 Theming and work our way towards becoming theming super heroes. We will walk you through the basic concepts necessary to start on your custom theme adventure. You'll walk away with a theme built from scratch and learn how to use a foundation provided by thousands of other of Drupal themers.
Company: Chapter Three
Drupal Version: 7.x
Professional Agile Project Management For Drupal Projects
In this course, we cut past the evangelism that exists around Agile, and instead focus on real-world practical training that you can put into action.
Company: Wunderkraut
Drupal Version: N/A
Search API with ApacheSolr
After this training students should be able to build powerful Solr-based interfaces without writing code. They should also be able to run Solr to any of their sites on their local machine and on servers they control.
Company: Zivtech
Drupal Version: 7.x
Security: Process, Code & Hands-on Training
While Drupal is a secure and mature web application, it can be built and configured insecurely or even deployed in an unsafe environment. In this full-day session you'll learn how to evaluate your risks and secure your site and processes.
Company: Acquia
Drupal Version: 7.x
Views Configuration
Learn how to use Views to effectively take control of how content is organized throughout your website.
Company: Evolving Web
Drupal Version: 7.x
Advanced
Advanced Sass and Compass for RWD
This training will explore content strategy as a method for designing responsive websites, building separate components and layouts, and will emphasize creating DRY code. We will dive deep into the power of Sass and Compass and a handful of JavaScript tools and how they can be utilized for your growing website.
Company: Four Kitchens
Drupal Version: 7.x
See you at Austin!