Book Description
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful, easy-to-maintain websites with Drupal–fast! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill you’ll need, from organizing sites and using Drupal’s design themes to setting up search, polls, forums, and security. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Drupal tasks.
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.
By the Way notes present interesting information related to the
discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to
perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.
Jesse Feiler provides consulting services to small businesses and non-profits through his company, North Country Consulting (northcountryconsulting.com). His recent books include FileMaker Pro 10 In Depth, The Bento Book, How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups, and iWork ‘09 For Dummies®.
Register your book at informit.com/register for convenient access to all sample project source code, as well as updates and corrections as they become available.
Category: Web Development
Covers: Drupal
User Level: Beginning—Intermediate
Learn how to…
Make the most of Drupal, whether you’re building business, non-profit, or personal sites
Download, install, and configure open source Drupal 6 and 7, and make sure it’s working properly
Plan and organize your sites so they are easy to manage–and friendly to both users and search engines
Customize sites with Drupal’s extensive library of optional open source modules
Create barebone sites and home pages automatically
Add text, images, links, and other essential site features
Master Drupal’s powerful Content Construction Kit (CCK)
Incorporate new types of content, ranging from articles to e-commerce products
Secure Drupal sites by managing users, permissions, roles, and user profiles
Categorize and tag content, and implement full-text search
Promote user involvement with polls, comments, forums, RSS feed aggregation, blogs, and newsletters
Automate and simplify site management with Triggers, Actions, and Rules
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Hour 1. Using Drupal and the Twenty-First Century Web
- Hour 2. Exploring Drupal
- Hour 3. Setting Up and Installing Drupal
- Hour 4. Administering Drupal, Themes, and Modules
- Hour 5. Using Drupal Nodes
- Hour 6. Managing URLs: Cleaning, Redirects, and Pathauto
- Hour 7. Using Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Images
- Hour 8. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions
- Hour 9. Finding Information: Using Tags, Taxonomies, and Searches
- Hour 10. Using Polls, Comments, Discussions, and Feed Aggregators
- Hour 11. Empowering User Input with Rich Text and Images
- Hour 12. Using Blogs and Newsletters
- Hour 13. Creating Contact Forms and Webforms
- Hour 14. Working with Views
- Hour 15. Using Events and Calendars
- Hour 16. Building an E-Commerce Solution
- Hour 17. Building Your First Live Site
- Hour 18. Choosing a Theme
- Hour 19. Using Blocks
- Hour 20. Laying Out Panels and Pages
- Hour 21. Working with Menus
- Hour 22. Managing the Site
- Hour 23. Using View Arguments and Modifying Built-In Pages
- Hour 24. Customizing Themes and Their CSS
- Appendixes
- Index