The Drupal Community works well because community members bring many different skills to the project and apply them in many different ways, including helping others develop those skills.

On this page, you can browse for skills that you either have or want to improve. Click through to the page to learn more about the skill, including links for how to learn it, as well as contributor tasks and roles that use this skill.

This guide is always evolving. If you'd like to help improve it, the best starting point is the Contribute to the Contributor Guide page.

Accessibility
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 3 March 2021.
Testing and improving web site accessibility for people with disabilities
Budgeting and finance
Created: 27 November 2020. Last updated: 26 February 2021.
(needs review) Creating and monitoring budgets and tracking income and expenses for a project or event
Content strategy
Created: 20 July 2020. Last updated: 8 March 2023.
Content strategy guides the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.
CSS coding
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 July 2020.
Writing concise and valid CSS code
Database administration
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 17 February 2021.
Database setup and administration
Decoupled web programming
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 29 March 2021.
Programming web applications that are decoupled from a browser
Drupal site administration
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 July 2020.
Updating site configuration, managing content, managing user accounts
Drupal site building
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 21 July 2020.
(need review) Installing modules, building content types, creating taxonomy vocabularies, creating views, making menus, etc.
Drupal theming / theme building
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 20 July 2023.
(needs details) Using CSS, HTML, and Twig to implement a graphic design as a Drupal theme
Editing (English)
Created: 11 June 2020. Last updated: 17 February 2021.
(needs review) Editing and proofreading English text
Event planning
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 21 November 2020.
(needs details) Planning events, including DrupalCons, DrupalCamps, and mentoring events
Graphic design
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 17 October 2023.
Graphic design of images, web pages, web sites, and web applications
HTML coding
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 July 2020.
Writing valid and modern HTML code
Information architecture
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 22 July 2020.
(needs review) Creating the information architecture for a web site
JavaScript coding/programming
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 13 July 2020.
(needs details) Writing code in JavaScript
Local development environment installation
Created: 27 July 2020. Last updated: 30 March 2021.
Setting up a local development environment for Drupal sites
Making screenshots
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 18 November 2020.
Making usable screenshots of a web page or command-line window
Marketing
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 21 November 2020.
(needs review) Promoting events and software
Mentoring
Created: 13 June 2020. Last updated: 1 October 2021.
Build confidence in novices by helping novices complete relevant tasks
Organizing swag
Created: 21 November 2020. Last updated: 21 November 2020.
(needs review) Arranging for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, or other swag for an event

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