Drupal Training Experiences

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A Drupalling I will go with Forcontu

tnorman | Drupal 7 | Expert in Drupal 7
06 July, 2015

My experience with Drupal started a few years ago when version 5 came out. At the time I was a newspaper/magazine photographer and was looking to branch out into freelance photograpy and knew I wanted a Content Managagement System to help keep my website up to date with new content. I explored several of CMS's including Joomla and WordPress, but eventually settled on Drupal because of the community. WordPress was popular for photographers, but I thought I would want to have more flexibility.

My first Drupal website was Drupal version 5.0. And then I started fresh with Drupal 6 when it came out a couple years later. The last build of  the freelance photographer site at http://www.timnormanphoto.com was for version 6.  I delved decently deep into Drupal 6 and wrote some small modules to help with the site. Nothing fancy though.

With so many photographers out of work and finding new jobs, I thought it might be a good idea to start in a new career as I could see my friends losing jobs and finding new careers.I've enjoyed Drupal and the Drupal community, so a Drupalling I would go.

The beginner and intermediate sections for learning Drupal 7 with Forcontu have been interesting. I've never taken an online course like this, but I thought it would help learn the differences between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 as well as get my feet back into Drupal developing. Much of Drupal 7 is the same or similar to Drupal 6. The advance section for the course, which is coming up, will be where I'm going to enjoy sinking my teeth into. 

The overall experience has been challenging at times in juggling outside work and life while continuing with course work. You set your own schedule and pace which helps with how fast you are learning or how much you may already know. The moderator/teacher has been wonderfully helpful and forgiving when late nights on my job lead to sleepy nights while going thru the course work. 

I have learned about modules and sections of Drupal 7 that I didn't have experience with nor knew about. It is an educational course, and I've enjoyed the work. I'm about to start on the next section, the advance section, and that should provide a whole new challenge and learning level.

The knowledge I learn in this course should help me rebuild my current site and hopefully give me a basis to start a career as a junior Drupal developer.  If you know of someone looking for some extra help on a site or a job opening, please let me know. 

Drupal Training Experiences

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Front-End and SiteBuild

AlexisMaciasVargas | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Front-End
20 June, 2025

The courses are quite complete and allow you to learn a lot, whether you start from scratch or if you already have some experience. Sometimes the bot can fail or fall short with some answers, but Fran responds very quickly and solves all the doubts, which is much appreciated during the development of the activities.

What I liked the most was the final part, where we work with Vue, RESTful and JSON:API, since it combines what we learned with current Front-End development technologies.... [read more]

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Back-End Course Opinion

Fafard | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End
20 June, 2025

The course in general seems to me to be very well oriented for the learning of the neophyte professional in D8/9/10, as was my case. Coming from D7 the change has been radical and what I have noticed is that it is very ambitious: it takes time to assimilate all the concepts (which I insist are many). It is mandatory to review again the concepts given during the course when creating the final project. In general I think it is a great course to open doors to this technology going from the most... [read more]

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Drupal Backend

MahamaduSillahJawara | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End
20 June, 2025

We have learned a lot but it has also been long. Drupal has been seen in a very valuable and useful depth.

I was able to reinforce concepts that I thought I had already mastered and I also learned a lot of new ways of doing things that will come in handy. The truth is that the course is super complete and recommended whether you want to review as if you are a beginner with Drupal.

The way it is structured also helps to get an idea of the complexity of the different exercises and... [read more]

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Expert in Drupal 10 Site Building

Bayest | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Site Building
19 June, 2025

What has helped me the most is that the course is very well structured and each activity builds on the previous one, which makes learning much easier. The solutions are well explained and you can consult the material whenever you get stuck or have any doubts. In addition, Fran responds quickly and clearly when you need help, which is much appreciated, especially at times when something does not work as expected.

Throughout the course I have learned to move with ease through the Drupal... [read more]

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Course of considerable value

aolvera | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Site Building
19 June, 2025

In this course you learn a lot of things, even if you already have previous experience in Drupal, as is my case. I have been working with this CMS for more than 8 years and, even so, I have realized that there were practices that I thought I was doing well... and it turns out that it was not so. In addition, I have discovered functionalities that I didn't even know existed. Drupal is extremely broad and versatile, so it's normal that there are areas that you have never touched or that you... [read more]

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Experience learning Drupal 10

ernesto.algar | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End
16 June, 2025

As a Drupal 10 Back-End expert, I have consolidated my knowledge through a solid technical training focused on architecture, development and customization of modules and entities in complex environments. My training journey began with a full immersion in Site Building, which allowed me to master the creation of content structures, views, taxonomies and editorial workflows without programming.

Subsequently, I specialized in Back-End development, focusing on the creation of custom... [read more]

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Drupal Backend

EvaBlazquez | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End
06 June, 2025

I have learned a lot, but it has also cost me. I didn't know anything about Drupal and I haven't developed recently and it has been a challenge to progress, although the tutor, Fran Gil, is always available if you have to ask him to help you with anything.

I recommend it if you are interested in learning about Drupal. It will always be useful to know about web development, php, html, etc...

What I value most positively is that it is a very practical course. It is also the most... [read more]

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Experience in the Drupal 10 Back-End Course

Pcolas | Drupal |
28 May, 2025

I have been working with Drupal for a couple of years, and this course has been very helpful in reinforcing and solidifying my knowledge of Drupal. Although I already had some prior experience, the content allowed me to consolidate key concepts and discover new functionalities that I wasn’t deeply familiar with. I also greatly appreciate that the provided documentation remains available for future reference, which will help me continue learning and applying what I’ve learned to real projects... [read more]

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Drupal 10 Back-End Course

FranciscoMartinezRodriguez | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End
28 May, 2025

The Drupal 10 Back-End course has been a real challenge, especially because of the complexity of some of its concepts and the technical depth involved in developing with this CMS. However, thanks to a clear, progressive and well-structured methodology, it has been possible to advance safely in each module.
The practices proposed throughout the course have been fundamental to consolidate the acquired knowledge, allowing to apply the theory directly on real cases.
Despite the effort... [read more]

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My experience in the Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End Development Course

jmarcano | Drupal 10 | Expert in Drupal 10 Back-End
27 May, 2025

I came to the course with some previous experience in web development, but without a solid foundation in Drupal. The learning curve at the beginning was steep, especially because of the modular structure of the system and the intensive use of YAML, but thanks to Forcontu's step-by-step methodology and the practical approach of the activities, I managed not only to understand how Drupal works thoroughly, but to apply good development practices from the very first moment.

The course... [read more]

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