Hey Guys,

We are starting the next batch of Drupal Training in Dec. You can check the details of this course: http://www.ravisagar.in/blog/launching-drupal-training-delhi-ncr-and-fre...

If you are interested in attending this course, please give me a call at 9811787069 or email at ravi [at] sparxsys [dot] com

Here is the Content of this Course.

Course 1: The Essentials - Beginning Drupal

Total Duration: 12 hours
Free Bonus Sessions: 5 hours
Course Pre-requisite: Passion to create a website, Good to have basic HTML knowledge
Course Fee: Rs. 10,000 for Indian and $200 for foreign students
Venue: South Ex

Level I (Start creating your own websites from Day 1)
Day 1 (2 hour)

1. Setup environment - WampServer (15 mins)
2. Drupal Introduction and Advantages of using it (15 mins)
3. Installation and Initial Configuration (15 mins)
4. Drupal Basics (15 mins)
5. Exercise (1 hour)

Assignment 1

Day 2 (2 hour)

1. Installing Modules and Themes
2. Creating Menus
3. Block Management
4. Category Management - Taxonomy
5. Everything is Node
6. Introduction to Content Types
7. Creating Content - Pages
8. Revisions
9. Promote content to front page
10. Teaser and Full Node View
11. Front Page
12. Contact Form
13. Introduction to Users and Roles
14. Exercise
15. Comment Management

Assignment 2

Level II (Add more power to your websites)

Day 3 (2 hour)

1. Creating User in Drupal
2. User roles in Drupal
3. User Access Control
4. User profile
5. Additional User modules
6. User Permissions
7. Create Custom Content using CCK

Assignment 3

Day 4 (2 hour)

1. Add more fields in custom content
2. Add Image fields to custom content
3. Add Date fields to custom content
4. Create Page View
5. Create Block View

Assignment 4

Level III (Jazz up your site)

Day 5 (2 hour)

1. Basic CSS
2. Change your theme using CSS
3. Change Block Background
4. Insert Website Background Images
5. Change size, color of various items

Assignment 5

Level IV (Power of Social Networking)

Day 6 (2 hour)

1. Create cool image sliders
2. How to add a blog with tags
3. Publish your blogs to twitter and Facebook
4. Integrate feedburner for Email subscription
5. Comment Management
6. Forums

Assignment 6

Why our Trainings are different?

1. Our trainings are for absolute beginners

This is our USP. We are totally focussed and determined to teach Drupal to anyone who can operate computers and has a passion to learn website development. When we say this we are making a bold statement here because even some developers find it difficult to learn Drupal. We want to break this myth and prove that anyone can learn Drupal. Yes anyone.

Come to us with a reason to make a website and we will teach you Drupal. We don’t expect you to have any programming background. We will use Drupal to teach you how to make an awesome website without writing a single line of code. Having some basic HTML won’t do any harm.

2. We will be with you always

Many people are not sure whether they should take a course or not because their main concern is the post training support. Many few training providers actually provide support!

Along with every training course we will provide you bonus free 5 session of one hour each of direct one to one session which you can consume within an year. We will be with you in your journey to success. We understand that you may have some difficulties when you are on your own and these free one to one sessions will ensure that you get all your doubts cleared.

Get your own Domain and Space to practice Drupal

We will give you a free Domain and Space where you can practice Drupal. It will include the following stuff.

1. Domain of your choice
2. 1 GB Space
3. 1 MySQL database

We will use this domain for practicing and we will ask you to complete the assignments that we give you on this domain. After the training is over you can keep the domain if you wish too for your business. Sexy isn’t it?

Though we provide a Domain name to you, in the training we will not build a website for you :) I hope you can understand it. The purpose of this Domain is for training only and to give you real life experience of creating your live site. When you create a site on your local machine, you may not get as excited as you would if you have a real domain, a website of your own.

So give me a call at 9811787069

These days I am working on creating training Modules for JIRA. There is one really good thing about this great tool. JIRA and Greenhopper both have an excellent documentation. So the Training Modules that I cam creating will not reinvent the wheel and there is no way I can keep it updated but I am trying to include various Use Cases in it which should be applicable to lot of people (I hope so).

The best thing about JIRA is that it can be customized the way you work and not vice versa. You don't really need to modify your process to use this tool. JIRA and its Agile features can be aligned to your way of working.

Anyways life is really busy these days. I kinda isolated from lot of exciting things happening these days but I guess that is the sacrifice you have to make to achieve bigger things. I know I close to my target and I can see my goals clearly.

On another note I was thinking of using Drupal Services API and JIRA API to connect them together. I am sure it can be done without problem but just thinking the need for doing so. Drupal is my first love and I have fallen in love with JIRA too. Connecting them together would be so cool. Ahh...btw I am also trying to get my hands dirty in Mobile Development. I am just working on an App to fetch data from Drupal site. Well I am doing lot of things at the same time :)

Just wanted to update quickly. Signing off now.

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of web sites, including

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social Networking sites

We at Sparxsys Solutions work extensively on Drupal and had delivered many succesful projects, we have experience in building an educational portal, matrimonial website, online newspaper and many more.

We support open source technologies and want to promote it. We offer absolutely free Introductory Workshop and Training Session on Drupal. In this workshop we cover the basics of drupal and give a demonstration on how to build a simple website without writing any code.

Topics covered in this workshop

1. What is Drupal? - An Introduction.
2. Why use Drupal? - Advantages of using it.
3. How to setup development environment?
4. Installation and intial configuration.
5. Create your first site! - Site Menu, Blocks and Pages.
6. Create your first blog with user comments!
7. Create your discussion forum!
8. Drupal Themes and Modules
9. Introduction to CCK and Views
10. What next?

Duration of the workshop

Approx. 2 hours

Prerequisites for attending this workshop

Basic HTML and good exposure to internet. Yes nothing else :)

Cost

Absolutely free for colleges in Delhi and NCR.

Ask us to organize this workshop in your college

If you want us to organize this workshop in your college then please contact us (Ravi - 9810949699), you can also fill the contact form to reach us or write at ravi at sparxsys dot com

1. We need a classroom/hall with the sitting capacity of atleast 25 students.
2. We would need a Projector and a screen.
3. It would be great if a student coordinator from college can help us in annoucing the event, managing the list of students interested in attending this workshop and coordinate the event.

When will this Workshop be held?

The date of the workshop will be fixed as per the convenience of the college.

So what are you waiting for contact us now and give your students the exposure to one of the most powerful web development cms. Call me now at 9811787069.

If you are a company based in NCR and looking for professional consultancy in Drupal then call me at 9811787069. We at Sparxsys Solutions work on Drupal and have build some really cool websites. If you are a web development company and want to train their employees then do let us know.

Also subscribe to our blog http://www.sparxsys.com/blog where we write mostly on Drupal and other Open Source Technologies.

UPDATE: We launched Drupal Trainings in Delhi and NCR region. Please check http://www.slashnode.in/training

Sparxsys is a professional Drupal consultancy company, specializing in custom development of high quality websites. Our rapid development process allows us to build feature-rich web solutions for our clients quickly and affordably. We offer full-service web development including custom Drupal development, logo design and branding, visual design, Drupal theming, user training, and site maintenance.

We are a startup company and use Open Source heavily for all our development. This is one of the main reason that we offer affordable services.

Check out some really cool websites created by us:

Timerays: http://www.sparxsys.com/projects/timerays
Creative Infra: http://www.sparxsys.com/projects/creative-infra
WeddingAlliances: http://www.sparxsys.com/projects/wedding-alliances

I am blogging after so many days, but there is a good reason for it. We revamped our company website completely and we tried to gave it a complete different look.

Check this out.

What I do

I provide Drupal & JIRA Consultancy/Training. In my free time I usually roam around with my camera and take pictures of anything that generates curiosity in me.

I am an Early Riser

I usually get up at 4 AM in the morning and start working immediately. At 6 AM I go to Gym and work our for around 45 mins. After taking my breakfast I then work till Lunch. This first half of the day is the time when I am the most efficient. After taking my lunch I usually do just tasks.

I am crazy about planning and Time Management

I don't just let myself into doing things without any order. I love doing things when they are supposed to be done. I am eccentric planner and I do whatever my notepad and my google calendar ask me to do.

How can I help you?

I can help you with lot of things. If you are looking for professional website develoment then I can certainly help you. This is something I have been doing for a long time and my major interest. I can take your brand from nowhere to everywhere. I also provide Graphic Designing services. If you are or your team is looking for Drupal Training then let me know.

How to reach me

For any professional help send me an email at ravi at sparxsys dot com or Call me at +91.9811787069 preferrably after 2 PM.