Drupal
- Drupal contributions
Documentation team!
Please check out my Drupal lessons and guides (I try to write clearly, from a newbie's perspective, and answer many commonly asked questions). Feel free to read, learn, and give feedback. I also frequent the Drupal support forums answering as many questions as I can.
Some key lessons include:
- Learn all about how to use CCK and Views
- Creating hierarchical menus
- Making custom/advanced home pages
- Multiple-step form submissions
- Case study on davidnewkerk.com
- Set up audio and video on your site
A few Drupal sites I've made:
- KlausBadelt.com - Film composer of Pirates of the Caribbean and many other successful movies
- AnalystForum - Large community site for people studying for CFA, CAIA, and FRM exams
- absolutecross - My own site, a popular learning resource for designers and web developers
- Agua Viva - Ministry site for Mexican missionaries
- Firehouse Kidz - Firetruck based children's ministry
- YourOCDentist - Site for my dentist
- Soleh Brewer - Amazing musician, one of my instructors at Musicians Institute
Some Drupal projects I'm part of the development team for:
- Oregon Medical Association - working with Grip Media
- Art of Mike Mignola - Comic book author/illustrator (Hellboy), working with Grip Media
- Ministry Leadership Center - working with Grip Media
- Growers Express Crop Report Tool - working with Grip Media
- VanderHouwen & Associates - working with Grip Media
- My mentors
- mfer, Rob_Feature, heyrocker, EclipseGc, sdboyer, lyricnz
- Roles in working with Drupal
- Site Builder, Themer, Front End Developer, Module Developer, Designer, Project Manager, Site Lead, Documentation, Performance Optimization, Server Administration
- I contributed Drupal patches
- I contributed to Drupal issue queues
- I contributed Drupal documentation
- I help in the Drupal support forums
- I provide Drupal-related services
- I give support on IRC
Personal information
- Full name
- David Newkerk
- First or given name
- David
- Last name or surname
- Newkerk
- Languages spoken
- English
- My website
- http://www.absolutecross.com
- Interests
- Music, film scoring, web design, graphic design, theming, typography, CSS, HTML5, Photoshop, Illustrator, Apple, Linux, training, documentation, usability, user experience, ux, semantic web, responsive design, jQuery, javascript, PHP, Nginx, AWS, cloud computing, open source
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United States
- IRC nick
- dnewkerk-keyz
- LinkedIn profile
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/absolutecross
- Facebook page
- http://www.facebook.com/david.newkerk
- Twitter url
- http://twitter.com/davidnewkerk
Work
- Industries worked in
- Film, Music, Agriculture, IT Services, Medical, Dental, Finance, Ministry, Church, Non-Profit, Temporary Power, Art
- Companies worked for
- Grip Media, LabelZero, Kinonation, AnalystForum, Firedrill Productions
History
- Documentation
- Over 50 edits
- Member for
- 6 years 37 weeks