Christian Schmidt is holding a two-day Drupal-Workshop at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main.

On the 23th of June he will cover the basics like the installation of Drupal and the appropriate modules as well as the configuration of node types (CCK), views and blocks.

On the 24th of June he will focus on theming (front-end programming with PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.) for Drupal-Websites as well as current developments in web design (HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, Audio, Video, Web-Fonts etc.).

Other topics of the workshop are: web projekt management, information architecture of web sites, open source software and the Drupal community.

Literature recommendations

A current list of books can be found on the Drupal website: Books about Drupal. In addition, we would refer the following books :

• Head First Web Design by Ethan Watrall and Jeff Siarto, O'Reilly
• Using Drupal by Angela "webchick" Byron et al., O'Reilly
• DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript ... by Jeremy Keith, Friends of Ed