I’m excited to share that I recently passed the Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder exam. I wanted to document my preparation journey for others who are planning to take it.

This certification was a step for me to strengthen my understanding of Drupal site building. It also helped me with content modeling, theming basics and configuration management. I come from a web/content management background. At first I found Drupal a bit complex because of its structure.. The exam preparation helped me understand it in a more practical way.

My Study Approach

I divided my preparation into phases. I did not try to learn everything at once:

1. Understanding the basics

I started by focusing on Drupal fundamentals. These include content types, fields, blocks, menus and user roles. Once these concepts became clear everything else started making sense. I learned a lot about Drupal site building.

1. Hands-on practice

I spent a lot of time practicing in a Drupal environment. I created content types and built layouts. Experimenting with views really helped solidify my understanding of Drupal.

1. Revision

After the practical work I revisited key topics. These include taxonomy, permissions and site configuration. Repetition helped me retain the concepts better. I reviewed Drupal site building concepts.

1. Practice questions

I used Pass4surexams mock exams to test my knowledge and pinpoint areas that needed more work. This practice was great for getting into the right mindset and building the confidence I needed for the real thing.

Sou um estagiário responsável pelos sites que usam drupal e recebi esse tipo de pedido: "Conforme já conversamos no dia de hoje, a secretaria do departamento *** gostaria de criar um sistema de lembretes em um formulário. A ideia seria colocar os dados dos pós-docs matriculados nesse formulário, e ter e-mails automáticos vinculados a campos de data de cada entrada dentro do formulário. Nossa pergunta é essa: seria possível vincular o disparo dos e-mails às datas dos campos "inicio" e "fim", para enviar lembretes aos alunos e à própria secretaria com antecedência?". O formulário já foi criado e possui preenchimentos também. Tentei reproduzir o que foi solicitado apenas com recursos do webform, mas acredito que seria necessário algum módulo específico para isso. Já ouviram falar de algo com essa funcionalidade? Não posso mexer no core do sistema usado por aqui pois seria um recurso para um site apenas.

I'm an intern responsible for websites that use Drupal, and I received this type of request: "As we discussed today, the department secretary would like to create a reminder system in a form. The idea would be to put the data of enrolled post-docs in this form and have automatic emails linked to the date fields of each entry within the form. Our question is: would it be possible to link the sending of emails to the dates of the "start" and "end" fields, to send reminders to students and the secretary in advance?". The form has already been created and has fields to be filled in. I tried to reproduce what was requested using only webform resources, but I believe a specific module would be needed for this. Have you heard of anything with this functionality? I can't modify the core of the system used here because it would be a feature for a single website.

I am studying how to submit forms in the Selenium or Playright manner and when I followed a guide showing the curl equivalent of submitted forms I saw a lot of code related to the theme etc in the submission.

This is based on using the DevTools window in Chrome or Firefox and choosing the option that enables you to copy the form submission code. You can even choose to see how a curl submission looks.

Is there some other theme that would show the most minimal data, Stark, or even something more basic?

Hey everyone,

I was recently looking into better ways to handle theme configurations without having to hardcode everything or constantly hit refresh, and I stumbled on this walkthrough for Space DS 2.x (Space Design System).

It looks like they’ve added a really smooth live preview directly in the admin panel. You can toggle dark/light mode, swap device views, and tweak typography/colors with real-time updates—no saving and reloading required.

A huge plus for me is that it has native Storybook integration for SDC (Single Directory Components). I know getting Storybook to play nice can sometimes be a headache, but the props and dynamic slots seem to map over perfectly here. They also showed off their Lighthouse scores in the video and it's pulling a 99 on mobile, which is pretty sweet.

Anyway, I thought it was a really neat approach to bridging the gap between the admin UI and the frontend. Figured some of you might find it useful if you're building out landing pages or managing complex themes.

Here’s the walkthrough if you want to see the UI in action: YouTube Video Link

Has anyone used this (or a similar setup) in a production environment yet? Curious to hear how it scales!