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This exercise will require you to build a view which lists films filtered by genre and create image styles to format images for different purposes.

Goal

Create a view that lists films filtered by genre.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

In this exercise you will demonstrate the ability to build a ‘Movie Review’ content type based on our design by downloading contributed modules to provide all the necessary field types.

Goal

Add all necessary field types to a content type, using contributed modules if necessary, and configure the display of the content.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

This exercise requires you to analyze wireframes detailing the architecture of a website and design a content type to store all the required information.

Goal

Figure out which fields should be included in a content type based on a wireframe.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

This exercise will have you demonstrate knowledge of the installation process and how to customize Drupal for an improved experience when using the administration UI.

Goal

Install Drupal and use the administrative UI to download and enable contributed modules.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

Check and create taxonomy terms programmatically.

Goal

In a custom module, create taxonomy terms and relate them to a node.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

Create an image file programmatically and attach a file to a node.

Goal

Attach a file to a programmatically-created node.

Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Additional resources section at the bottom of this page.

The Using Drupal series of lessons walks through the O'Reilly book, Using Drupal, written by Angie Byron, Addison Berry, and Bruno de Bondt. We use the second edition, which covers Drupal 7. The book starts off with taking a look at Drupal Core and then works through various case studies using a wide range of contributed modules from the Drupal project.

The video series follows along with what's in the book, so if you have the book, the videos are really great supplemental material. Even without the book, you’ll get the full lessons here in the videos.