Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites
David Mercer
Book Details:
Language : English
Paperback : 284 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
ISBN : 1904811809
ISBN 13 : 978-1-904811-80-0
Author(s) : David Mercer
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Content
Management (CMS), Drupal, Open Source
What you will learn from this book
Chapter 1 introduces you to the world of Drupal
and looks at where Drupal comes from, where its going and what it can offer
you. Because it is important to understand the nature of the tasks which lie
ahead, it also discusses how to plan and build your website, taking a sneak
preview of the book's demo Website in the process. Finally, we scrutinize the
Drupal community and learn how to make the most of Drupal as an organized,
living entity and not just a piece of software.
Chapter 2 deals with how to get everything you
need up and running on a development machine and also briefly looks at how all
the requisite technologies gel together to produce your working Drupal site.
Once everything is up and running, and after looking over some of the more
common installation problems, the chapter presents a short tour of Drupal in
order to give you an idea of what to expect.
Chapter 3 looks at the most general settings which
all Drupal administrators need to contend with. Everything from determining
your site's name to dealing with the cache or file system settings gets treated
here before we look at more focused and complex issues in the chapters to come.
Chapter 4 sees us adding functionality to the
newly created site. The focus of this chapter is really on modules and how they
can be added and enabled, or even how to obtain modules that are not part of
the standard distribution. Since blocks are often required to display the
functionality provided by modules, this chapter ends off with a discussion on
how to control blocks.
Chapter 5 concerns itself with the topic of access
control. Drupal has a sophisticated role based access control system, which is
fundamentally important for controlling how users access your site. This
chapter will give you the information you need to implement whatever access
controls you require.
Chapter 6 gets to the heart of the matter by
beginning the book's coverage on content. Working with content, what content
types are available, administering content and even a discourse on some of the
more common content related modules serve as a basis for moving to more
advanced content related matters that follow in the next chapter.
Chapter 7 gives you the edge when it comes to
creating engaging and dynamic content. While this chapter doesn't require you
to be an expert in HTML, PHP and CSS it does introduce you to the basics and
shows how, with a little knowledge, extremely powerful and professional content
can be created. That's only half the story, because later on it looks at
categorization and how this particular feature of Drupal sets it apart from
everything else out there.
Chapter 8 gives you a run down of how attractive interfaces
are created in Drupal through the use of themes. As well as discussing briefly
some of the considerations that must be taken into account when planning your
website, it ends off by looking at how to make important modifications to your
chosen theme.
Chapter 9 really adds the icing on the cake by
looking at a host of more advanced topics. From creating flexible content types
and generating revenue from ads, all the way through to building dynamic
content using Ajax, you will find something to enhance your website and add
that something special.
Chapter 10 takes a pragmatic look at the type of
tasks you will need to be proficient in in order to successfully run and
maintain a Drupal site. Whether its setting up cron jobs or making backups of
your database, everything you need to do throughout the course of running your
newly created website will be covered here.
Appendix A deals with the all important topic of
deployment. Because all major work should be done on a copy of your Website on
a development machine, this appendix presents a sound process for taking the
finished product and making it available for public consumption on your host
site.
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