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Acquia Authorised Drupal Training in the UK

COURSES

DRUPAL FROM SCRATCH (ONE DAY)

Designed for beginners who are completely new to Drupal and who therefore need a course that goes right from the basics of installation through to the key elements of site building and development.

No prior Drupal experience is necessary although it might be prove useful that you have experience of web content mangement per se. There is no requirement for any coding ability for this course.

DRUPAL SITE BUILDING (ONE DAY)

This builds on the Drupal From Scratch course to reinforce what you have already learned and to extend your skills covering advance topics such as more feature-filled content types, dynamic views, display suite, context block organisation, the essentials of SEO, and a whole lot more.

The prerequisite for this course is the Drupal from scratch but there is no requirement for any coding ability for this course.

DRUPAL THEMING (ONE DAY)

This course builds on Drupal Site Building day to introduce best practices, tips and tricks, specific tools, and advanced theming skills such as how to get inside Drupal and alter mark-up before it becomes redndered HTML.

There is a small amount of coding in the second half of this course but no previous Drupal coding experience is assumed. A little PHP experience would prove useful although it is not essential.

DRUPAL SEO AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (HALF DAY)

A practical half day workshop focussing on how to make an existing site (your own site if you so choose) as SEO-friendly as possible.

There is no requirement for any coding ability for this course.

DRUPAL COMMERCE (ONE DAY)

A one day intense course introducing the Drupal Commerce e-commerce suite. The prerequisite for this course is the Drupal from scratch but it is also suitable for any experienced Drupal 7 site builders and developers.

DRUPAL CODING FOR BEGINNERS (ONE DAY)

This course is designed for Drupal site builders and/or themers who have not yet taken the plunge into coding.

The course assumes no previous coding knoweldge but nevertheless you will get to the point where you can confidently override templates, write theme functions, write pre-process functions and write simple modules the change the functionality of Drupal - in short, make Drupal look and feel the way you want it.

There are no pre-requisite courses but it is assumed that you are already a competent Drupal site builder.

DRUPAL MODULE DEVELOPMENT (TWO DAYS)

The full monty for developers; this course builds on all the previous ones to introduce the Drupal API, hooks etc.
Over the two days, you will build a full working module as the vehicle for learning.
You will be coding right from the outset in this course and whilst you do not need to be a PHP expert, some previous exposure to PHP is advised.

 
 

Professional Drupal Training

Official Drupal Training Courses

i-KOS are proud to offer the first Acquia authorised Drupal Training in the UK

Why Choose Acquia Training with i-KOS?

i-KOS are both an Acquia Enterprise Partner, recognised as a leading Drupal agency and now also an Authorised Training Partner. There are many ways to build websites using Drupal and our training is distilled from real building experince over many of the experience acquired from building of the biggest sites using Drupal in the World. i-KOS build on this experience with an insight into Drupal in the UK market.

Training with Experience

Nick Abbott

Our courses are led by Nick Abbott, who has 20 years of experience of teaching and 25 years of development under his belt. Nick brings an incredible energy and enthusiasm to training in a classroom or one-to-one environment. This unique combination of educational and development experience will ensure you leave the course with much more than a renewed motivation for building your next Drupal site.

 

Testimonials spotlight...

  • Impressive ability to tailor training on the fly to suit the requirements of those in the room

    Company: 
    Flight Centre (UK) Limited
    Client name: 
    Mat Camp
    Job title: 
    Web Development Team Leader | eCommerce

    After an intensive three days of Drupal training with Nick from i-KOS, we've walked away with more than just technical skills but also a direction for our migration to the Drupal platform. Nick was willing and able to discuss more than just training and basic concepts but also the approach that should be coupled with a Drupal architecture.

    Nick has an impressive ability to tailor training on the fly to suit the requirements of those in the room. The content of the training was thorough and means that after three days, we're able to build simple and complex websites through the Drupal content management framework with confidence. The training style of a mix of theory and practical suited us as developers extremely well.

    Since completing the training, we've found ourselves talking in a new vernacular of content types, contexts, hooks and all things theming and it is impressive that this came from such a concise amount of training.

 

Testimonials highlight...

  • Thanks for all your time and effort on getting us to grips with the tailored training on Drupal 7.

    Company: 
    ITV plc
    Client name: 
    Scott Donovan

    Simply put:

    "I have learned much more about Drupal and what it has to offer than I expected. Particularly about additional modules that I had not known about or thought Drupal would have that are so powerful and, in many cases, simple to use." Read more »

  • If this is Acquia’s and i-KOS’ intention for the future training, then I can be counted on to provide many a recommendation.

    Company: 
    immedia
    Client name: 
    Nicholas Kirkiridis

    The level of interaction was superb as each section was covered thoroughly and in detail. Read more »

 
 

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A client said:

  • Having read books and followed tutorials, I had a reasonable understanding of how to theme a Drupal site, but still couldn't quite see how to go from theming a specific site to creating a reusable and scalable theming solution.

    Nicholas Goward | Front End Developer | Commercial and Online
    ITV plc

  • After providing i-KOS with a broad set of requirements it was clear right from the beginning of our 3 days training/consultancy that Nick had spent a significant amount of time researching the topics and preparing the content to deliver.

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    UK Government (security services)

  • "I would just like to say thank you and that it was spot on - a testiment to your professionalism 10 out of 10 – great in every respect!"

    Mark West
    Talk Talk

  • I learnt a lot from the three day course.

    Very impressed with the structure and delivery of the training.

    The i-KOS trainer was first rate and I will be back in touch later in the year to arrange further sessions.

    Richard Burrow | e-Commerce Manager
    Timico Limited

  • After an intensive three days of Drupal training with Nick from i-KOS, we've walked away with more than just technical skills but also a direction for our migration to the Drupal platform. Nick was willing and able to discuss more than just training and basic concepts but also the approach that should be coupled with a Drupal architecture.

    Mat Camp | Web Development Team Leader | eCommerce
    Flight Centre (UK) Limited

  • Simply put:

    "I have learned much more about Drupal and what it has to offer than I expected. Particularly about additional modules that I had not known about or thought Drupal would have that are so powerful and, in many cases, simple to use."

    Scott Donovan | Front End Developer | Commercial and Online
    ITV plc

  • The three day 'Developer intensive' course that I attended was meticulously planned and prepared and delivered extremely well.

    Mohammed
    IPC Media

  • I would like to thank you for updating my Drupal skills, it was an extremely useful opportunity to learn an exceptional amount.

    Alex Stewart | Graduate Technologist
    CapGemini


  • I started on day 1 knowing nothing about Drupal...and left feeling confident that I had a good understanding of the possibilities available and the things that need to be considered when building a good Drupal site.

    Sophie Jennings | Media Producer (international MyLabs)
    Pearson International

  • Well constructed days training, the course covered the back bone of Drupal that gave me a good understanding of what we are working with and how its constructed, as well as insight into what the possibilities are.

    Tansy Rothwell | Programme Manager, Higher Education Digital Programmes
    Pearson International
 

 

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