DILIMAN, Quezon City – Webmasters from Agricultural Training Center-Regional Training Centers convened for the updating and enhancements of each websites through "Drupal 7 End-user Boot Camp for ATI-RTC Webmasters" last November 12-15, 2018 at Rural Development Education Center (RDEC).

Drupal is a free and open source content-management structure written in PHP and distributed under the GNU- General Public License. Drupal provides a back-end framework for at least 2.3% of all web sites worldwide – ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. Systems also use Drupal for knowledge management and for business collaboration.

The training aimed that webmasters should able to further enhance their capacity to use the functionality of the Drupal administrator account including managing users and content, configuring, updating modules and site optimization.

After the training, the ATI-RTCs own websites are secured by regularly updating the installed Drupal modules, extend their website themes by customizing appropriate landing pages as needed, create alternative homepage layouts while maintaining the overall ATI- Google Web Toolkit (GWT) look and knows how to trouble shoot problems in their own website and work out the solutions by themselves.

With Drupal 7, Web availability improved, a good framework for building sites accessible to people with disabilities because many of the best practices been incorporated into the program code Core. The accessibility of the web-team is carrying on the work of identifying and resolving accessibility barriers and raising awareness within partners, stakeholders and the community as a whole.