Drupal Open Source Development & eCommerce
The 11 week Open Source Development Program will make you extremely employable with a strong foundation to use the Drupal CMS to build dynamic, search engine friendly, and completely socially interactive websites with e-Commerce for educational facilities, government agencies, and private business. No programming is needed! Drupal is like lego and you simply put the pieces together and from there you can build almost anything for clients and get paid very well while doing it. If you want to be highly employable in an exciting field that commands incredible salaries and gives you flexibility to work almost anywhere this program is for you!
This course is hands on, applied, interactive and completely instructor lead through out the duration of the program
As a partner of Victoria’s leading web agency northStudio.com, Q College is at the forefront of new trends and technologies, and as a result produces knowledgeable graduates who will excel in the work force.
This course is hands on and you will be making and developing websites. It is also instructor lead through out the duration of the program which gives students lots of opportunity with instructors.
Our regular interaction with web clients and industry partners and our unique relationship with northStudio.com allow our instructors to stay at the forefront of current trends, new technologies and unique approaches to online web development.
Our instructors live the web and are experts in the field of Drupal Content Management Systems. They do this for a living. This program will prepare its graduates for many career and independent business opportunities within this exciting field.
This program can be taken Full Time or Part Time (customized schedule)
- Full Time: Monday-Friday (11 weeks starting January 09, 2012) 9:00am-2:30pm (300 Hours total classroom time with Instructor)
- Part Time: Schedule to be determined with each student and is flexible Monday-Friday including weekends and Evenings!
Did you know:
- The top end Drupal Developers make a salary of between $150,000.00 - $175,00.00 / year
- There are more than 5000+ full tme, part time and contract positions for Drupal posted on http://groups.drupal.org/jobs
- Combined with the Web Design and Internet Marketing Program the Drupal Open Source Development and e-Commerce program allows students to enter the job field with only 6 month of training!
- Drupal CMS has more software developers that Microsoft, Google or Facebook!
- Drupal developers are snached up by companies all over the world as there is a shortage of Drupal developers in the thousands. Drupal is now 2% of the entire web and is the fastest growing CMS today!
We teach you in detail everything from basic installation to creating custom modules.
Our training course covers all the important aspects of:
- Installing
- Configuring
- Customizing
- Theming
- Extending
- Mobile Ready
- and maintaining a Drupal CMS powered website.
Our Instructors explore:
- Blogs
- Discussion forums,
- Member profiles,
- and other features while demonstrating the steps required to make Drupal perform.
They also teach fundamental concepts and skills along the way including:
- installation
- backups, and updates
- security and permissions
- flexible page layouts and CSS
- menu navigation
- performance monitoring and disaster recovery
Instructors will also discuss how to select and install the community-supported modules that further expand Drupal's capabilities, and gives experienced PHP programmers tips on customizing page templates.
Now you may think you need to be a high level programmer but not with todays new Drupal CMS technology but with advances in CMS little to no programming is needed to build amazing websites with e-commerce. Drupal is like lego and all you need are the pieces and to understand how it is put together and from there you can build almost anything for clients and get paid very well while doing it.
We teach you everything from basic installation to creating custom modules. You'll have the skills to make websites for nearly any need. Back-end knowledge is important, but so is theming. Theming controls the look of the site and our instructors cover this is great detail.
The best part of our training course is our small class size. If there are any topics you'd like to learn, our instructors will be more than willing to help. We have the cutting-edge knowledge of today's fast-paced and competitive web sector.
Drupal is used by thousands of companies, universities, non-profits, and governments around the world so employment is easy and in high demand.
Drupal allows you to build all sorts of websites for example:
- e-commerce
- Art Music Multimedia
- File Management Sites
- Social Network sites
- Blog network
- Video Sharing Sites
- Digg-like news sites
- Resource Directories
- Intranet/corporate websites
- Educational Sites - Universities, Colleges
- Conference and Camp websites
- Business Community Sites
- News Publishing
- International Multilingual sites
- Private Communities
Drupal empowers you to build all sorts of applications that you may already use and has features out of the box and thousands of add on modules to create sites like:
- Digg
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Amazon
- Tumblr
Who uses Drupal?
- Sony
- Nasa
- Warner Bros
- Nike
- Forbes
- Harvard
- Metallica
- Ozzy
- The Greatful Dead
- Ubuntu
- The Whitehouse
- Green Peace
- Adobe
- 20th Century Fox
- UBC
- LethBridge College
- Laurentian Univeristy
- UVIC
- Portland State University
- Playstation
- Reuters
- Digg
- and more.
Drupal is also part of a massive comunity which meets many times a year all over the world. If you want to meet some great people that work for industries all over the world this is for you. And the DrupalCons are so much fun!
You will have successfully completed the Web Development and Internet Marketing course or you will be able to demonstrate your skills in web development and design, as well as an interview with the instructor.
More Photos
Instructors
