My Drupal video courses on lynda.com are mostly available on a subscription basis, starting at $25/month. But I realized that few readers of my blog know that several videos in each course are available for free.

Here are the freebies in Drupal 7 Essential Training, which was released this past Friday:

• Welcome
• Getting a Drupal site up fast
• Deciding whether to use Drupal
• Understanding nodes
• Adding fields to content types
• Selecting and installing downloaded themes
• Enabling styled text with a WYSIWYG editor
• Launching a Drupal site

Here's what's free in my other courses:

Drupal Gardens Essential Training

• Welcome
• Previewing the finished project
• What is Drupal Gardens?
• Subscribing to RSS feeds
• Creating image galleries
• Understanding the Theme Builder
• Exporting themes
• Using exported sites outside of Drupal Gardens

Drupal 7 New Features

• Overview of Drupal 7's improvements
• Installing themes and modules
• Adding fields to content types

Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data

• Welcome
• Reviewing requirements
• Touring examples of data visualization
• Planning data structure
• Importing and manipulating data
• Looking at Drupal's database
• Deciding whether to store personal data as nodes or users

Drupal 6 Essential Training

• Welcome
• Drupal is a CMS
• Choosing Drupal
• Checking Drupal's requirements
• Understanding the inner workings of Drupal
• Meeting the Drupal community
• Learning key terms in Drupal
• Touring Drupal's interface

... and here are the freebies in Chris Charlton's Drupal: Creating and Editing Custom Themes:

• Welcome
• Learning about Drupal themes
• Building sites today with Drupal
• Required knowledge and software
• Installing Drupal 6 using Acquia
• Configuring the appropriate modules for a Drupal site
• Creating pages with standard node content types
• Creating custom node content types
• Finalizing site navigation

Click the series titles to watch the videos. Enjoy!

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