If everything on your site looks like a blog post -- with one "title" and one block of "body" text -- Drupal core has got you covered. But what if your articles also have headlines, subheads, bylines, sidebars, and related links?
You need the Content Construction Kit (or "CCK"), one of Drupal's most powerful and widely-used modules. This introductory session will explain the purpose of CCK, demonstrate how to configure, use, and extend it, and take a quick look at the theming of CCK fields.
Agenda
- Why CCK was invented and what it is for.
- A live demo of CCK configuration and usage.
- How to find and install modules that supply new field types, and a discussion of the most popular ones (Date, ImageField, FileField, Node Reference...) .
Too often, we see sites that “look like a Drupal website”. To me, that’s an obvious design FAIL. If you’ve ever felt restricted by Drupal’s default rendering of its content and HTML, this is a must-attend session.
We’ll discuss techniques for Themers and Designers to break out of Drupal’s default markup by using the tools already available to us. No kittens will be harmed.