Drupal User's Guide : Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site / by Emma Jane Hogbin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogbin, Emma Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

S.l. : Pearson Education, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Finally, Drupal Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide from Planning to Finished Site The open source content management system Drupal offers amazing flexibility, sophistication, and power. The catch? Many first-time users find it difficult to get started, and most Drupal books don't help with the initial stages. Drupal User's Guide is different: easy to use, fun to read, practical, and complete! Long-time Drupal site developer Emma Jane Hogbin guides you through every step of building sites with Drupal, from installation and site planning through launching your first site. Drawing on her experience teaching thousands of beginners, she covers both Drupal and Web design tasks, showing exactly how they fit together. Drupal User's Guide shows how to use Drupal 7's newest improvements to build more modern, manageable sites for any business or organization. Hogbin covers crucial topics other Drupal books ignore, including search engine optimization and accessibility. Walk through installing Drupal on Mac OS X and Linux Web servers Get comfortable with Drupal 7's new administrative interface Build a basic site in minutes Create S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) site goals Audit your existing content so you can make the most of it Explore, choose, and customize Drupal themes Walk through building a community site with private discussion area Build a complete business association directory site Use Web forms to capture and display any kind of content Take advantage of Drupal's powerful Views module Choose the right Drupal and third-party modules to build virtually any site Optimize your site for Google and other search engines Use advanced techniques to improve your visitors' experiences If you want to create great sites with Drupalwith no hassle, no confusion, and no degree in computer sciencethis is the book for you!

Contents:

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedications

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Part I. Quick Start

Chapter 1. Introduction to Drupal

Chapter 2. Installing Drupal

Chapter 3. Drupal Administration

Chapter 4. Site Recipe: Micro Web Site

Part II. Planning

Chapter 5. Site Goals

Chapter 6. Human-Friendly Web Sites

Chapter 7. Information Architecture

Chapter 8. Design for Drupal

Part III. Case Studies

Chapter 9. Community Site

Chapter 10. Business Directory

Part IV. Build Anything

Chapter 11. Core and Contributed Modules

Chapter 12. Working with Content Types

Chapter 13. Lists of Content

Chapter 14. Recipes

Part V. Extending Drupal

Chapter 15. Theming

Chapter 16. Search Engine Optimization

Chapter 17. Accessibility

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ISBN:

9780132161039

0132161036

OCLC:

1348486441