Ubercart Hands On Training: Chicago

In three days, participants will build from scratch a rock solid, commercially supported, aesthetically pleasing community website with an online store, without writing a single line of custom code.

Course numbers strictly limited - maximum 16 participants. Book now!

Brought to you by:

• Commerce Guys providers of full-service Drupal commerce solutions

Course Objectives

The course project will be to create a community and e-commerce website for a band based on Acquia Drupal and Ubercart that includes the following features:

• Blogs
• Audio and video content
• Tour dates and event calendar
• Fan forums
• Ubercart store:
  • t-shirts and other apparel
  • music downloads
  • access to premium content
  • event registration

Who? When? Where? How Much?

• Instructors
  • Ubercart Project Lead: Ryan Szrama
  • Commerce Guys: Mike O'Connor
  • Commerce Guys: Tim Hill
• When: Wed May 27 and Thursday May 28, 9:00 - 5:00, Friday May 29, 9:00-4:00 (incl. 1-hour lunch break)
• Where: Marriott Springhill Suites Chicago Downtown River North

  The current rate is $99 a night, we can not guarantee this, you will have to check the rates on the above link.

  The hotel is a 45 minute train ride from O'Hare, or a 30 minute train ride from Midway.

• Cost: $750 per participant
• Maximum number of participants: 16

Book now to take advantage of this great opportunity!

Course Overview

• Approaching and planning an e-commerce project, choosing features and identifying pitfalls.
• Building a community website in a few hours using Acquia Drupal.
• Implementing an online store using Ubercart.
• Making it look great with a commercial-grade theme from Top Notch Themes.

Expertise level - Easy/Medium

To fully benefit from this course, you should be comfortable setting up and administering Drupal 6.x websites and administering users, roles, permissions and vocabularies. You should be familiar with using CCK to create customized content types and be somewhat familiar with the Views module (version 1 or 2).

No coding required! We will not be writing custom code during the workshop but we might point to places where custom code snippets can help you out.

Schedule

Day 1

• Installing Drupal/Ubercart
• Taxonomy
• CCK
• Ubercart Product Node Type
• Ubercart Catalog
• Ubercart Image Support
• Ubercart Attributes, Options, and Adjustments

Day 2

• Views
• Ubercart Payment Options
• Ubercart Shipping Quotes and Taxes
• Ubercart Order Management

Day 3

• Selling Access to Content
• Selling File Downloads
• Event Registration
• Accepting Donations
• Store Credit
• Discounts and Coupons

Course Extras (demo only)

• Faceted search and content recommendation with ApacheSolr Search module
• Amazon Payments Support - demo site

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