Learn Drupal Gardens

An easy approach abut learning Drupal Gardens:

• Drupal Gardens offers a wealth of features that streamline development time for creating page layouts, adding image galleries, and theming on the fly. It also offers Typekit integration, which allows for great web typography customization.
• Drupal Gardens simplifies the design process while also throwing in some restrictions as well.

• Know all your content before diving into Drupal Gardens so you can easily toggle the appropriate on/off switches during setup and configuration. If you have built out the information architecture and wireframes prior to setting up your site you should have a pretty good idea what you’ll need.

• Design first, then implement…have an idea of how you want the site to look before making changes to the appearance in Drupal Gardens.
• Drupal Gardens offers hosting, but you can also export a Drupal 7 site at any time. Buy your URL in advance. You can resolve it to the Drupal Gardens server or export and host on your own server if you’d like.
• And finally, practicing with Drupal Gardens will give you a pretty good idea what its strength and limitations are. I spent several afternoon setting up prototypes just to get an idea what I could and couldn’t do with the product.

Here are some video tutorials


How to Learn Drupal Gardens in an Easy Way: This lesson helps us how to make our routine for learning Drupal Gardens, we are just focused on setting up your daily schedule. Without a schedule and routine, learning Drupal Gardens is going to be tough. Some guidelines are here which help you out.

Drupal Gardens Front Page Overview:  Drupal Gardens is the easiest way to learn the new Drupal 7 and in this video we take a look at the front page of Drupal and see how easy it is no configure your content.

                                         

Image Styling in Drupal Gardens:  In this video, we'll show you how you can add image fields to content types so that you have more control over how images are displayed in your Drupal website. Image styles let you to set standard graphic templates so images on your site have consistent size, scale, and rotation. For example, if you have a multiuser blog, an image style can ensure that user pictures always appear the same size and scale, regardless of the pictures the bloggers upload.

                                        


Signing Up for your Drupal Gardens: Drupal is very very powerful but can be VERY complicated... We are using Drupal Gardens to take that complication away from drupal and put us on the fast track of learning.In this video there is a description about how to Sign-Up in Drupal Gardens for new users.


                                        

How to use Blocks and Views in Drupal Gardens:  Views can make more than just content views. Learn to make lists of taxonomy terms. You can also see how to get a "related content" block depending on taxonomy terms, using "contextual filters". I also show you how to alter the output of each field. This screencast focuses on blocks.