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The Building and Theming Drupal Collection includes two popular eBooks: Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting, by Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Käfer Drupal's Building Blocks, by Earl Miles and Lynette Miles This eBook collection is the definitive, in-depth guide to customizing Drupal 6 Web sites with front end tips and tricks and detailed information about the most powerful site building modules: CCK, Views, and Panels. This eBook collection includes several step-by-step case studies showing how to build and customize sites from scratch. Topics include Building and theming your own custom content types Creating custom themes Optimizing database query performance In-depth explanations of advanced topics such as filters, arguments, and relationships in panels and views From the guts of Drupal's most powerful modules, to point-and-click configuration of your Drupal site, this eBook collection teaches you what you need to know.
Learn to set up, manage, and administer a Drupal web site Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed web sites, and Drupal 7 is the easiest version to use yet. This new edition teaches you the fast, fun, and easy way to get started with Drupal. Even if you have no Drupal experience, you'll quickly learn how to download and install Drupal, set up your first content-managed site, apply templates, use modules, and more. Drupal gurus Lynn Beighley and Seamus Bellamy show you how to take advantage of what Drupal has to offer, make the most of the new features in Drupal 7, and demystify perplexing Drupal issues. Drupal is a free, open source modular framework and content management...
“Even if you’re already a seasoned Drupal user of CCK, Views, or Panels, I’ve no doubt that this book will provide you with several new techniques and methods for getting the most out of these extremely essential modules. It certainly has for me.” —Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal, and CTO of Acquia With Drupal, Web professionals can create full-featured Web sites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere—in external modules. Drupal’s Building Blocks is an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules. The authors are Drupal insiders who’v...
Take advantage of Drupal’s vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you’ll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites— including a job posting board, photo gallery, online store, product review database, and event calendar. The second edition focuses on Drupal 7, the latest version of this open source system. Each project spans an entire chapter, with step-by-step "recipes" to help you build out the precise functionality the site requires. With this book, developers new to Drupal will gain experience through a hands...
Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes. Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick. Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features
Drupal is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that many libraries use to create well-designed, easy-to-use and manage websites. Ken Varnum guides you step by step through the decisions and tasks needed to develop and launch a Drupal-powered site and learn the advantages of the open source approach. The book offers hints and suggestions to work with your IT department, colleagues, and management as you develop your technical specifications. The implementation chapter guides you through installing Drupal, adding modules, developing your own themes (page layouts), and describes librarian created modules that have been shared with the community and can be downloaded and installed on anyone's site. You also get advice on marketing your site, best practices for project management and development, and measuring the success and impact of the site once it launches.
Award-winning designer Nordin guides readers through site planning, teaches how to create solid, user-centered design, and shows new tricks. Site builders and designers familiar with HTML and CSS get a compilation of three short guides on planning, design, and prototyping for Drupal.
Rank high in search engines with professional SEO tips, modules, and best practices for Drupal web sites.
Build beautiful interactive maps on your Drupal website, and tell engaging visual stories with your data. This concise guide shows you how to create custom geographical maps from top to bottom, using Drupal 7 tools and out-of-the-box modules. You’ll learn how mapping works in Drupal, with examples on how to use intuitive interfaces to map local events, businesses, groups, and other custom data. Although building maps with Drupal can be tricky, this book helps you navigate the system’s complexities for creating sophisticated maps that match your site design. Get the knowledge and tools you need to build useful maps with Drupal today. Get up to speed on map projections, the ethics of making maps, and the challenges of building them online Learn how spatial data is stored, input by users, manipulated, and queried Use the OpenLayers or GMap modules to display maps with lists, tables, and data feeds Create rich, custom interactions by applying geolocation Customize your map’s look and feel with personalized markers, map tiles, and map popups Build modules that add imaginative and engaging interactions
Harness the power of Drupal 8 to create enterprise-grade, highly scalable websites About This Book Build complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interface Ensure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8 Quickly master theme administration, custom block layouts, views, and the Twig template structure Who This Book Is For This course is suitable for web developers, designers, as well as web administrators who are keen on building modern, scalable websites using Drupal 8 and its wide range of new features What You Will Learn Set up a local “stack” dev...