Starting out building a site in Drupal is a daunting task - there is in-depth documentation everywhere and an active community, but finding out how the basics work is hard. Online information assumes that you already know a lot of these barely documented basics. Getting to understand the logic behind Drupal and understanding where everything is takes a little bit of getting used to.

Kickstart your experience and skip the searching. Start developing your site now! This session will teach you (among other things):

- A quick look at the directory structure - where is everything?
- How to set your homepage to show the full content
- How to stop users from registering for your site
- Changing content types to full HTML as standard
- What are blocks and why are they important?
- Several modules you can not live without and how to configure them (views, ckeditor, analytics, meta tags, xml sitemaps, etc)
- Easy user submittable forms
- Multiple menus
- A start to internationalisation (multilanguage sites)
- Why are subthemes important, how do you edit them, where do you place the files
- Something about caching
- 5 commands that justify installing drush