Overview

Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn. The free and open-source package Drupal is one of the most user-friendly and popular web content management systems (CMSes) available. Sites built on it are highly visible and include The White House and Amnesty International. Its web-based interface allows those with little or no experience to create professional-looking sites quickly while its flexibility gives them access to such features as blogs, polls, and forums. Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide uses plenty of screenshots and step-by-step instructions to walk a reader through the process of building a site using Drupal. To begin, the book details the process of downloading and unpacking Drupal, creating the MySQL database, and installing Drupal. It then moves on to explain the administrative interfaces, how to select a visual theme and create and customize content, and how to improve access to that content. Next the book walks readers through managing user accounts, customizing Drupal’s look and feel, and extending Drupal with modules. Although Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide is written for beginners, it goes beyond the basic package to ease readers into  advanced topics. A glossary and cross-references throughout the book give readers complete possession of the concepts, vocabulary, and steps necessary to reach Drupal mastery. From start to finish, it’s a complete guide for getting up and running with Drupal 7.

Full Product Details

Author:   Tom Geller
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Peachpit Press Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780321619211

ISBN 10:   0321619218
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   21 December 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 Getting Drupal Up and Running Fulfilling Drupal's Requirements Downloading and Unpacking Drupal Creating the MySQL Database Using phpMyAdmin Installing Drupal Chapter 2 Establishing Your Drupal Site Using the New Administrative Interfaces in Drupal 7 Turning on Built-In Features Giving Your Site Its Identity Selecting a Visual Theme Monitoring Your Drupal Site Packaging Your Drupal Site Chapter 3 Creating and Managing Content Gaining More Control of Individual Nodes Creating Other Types of Content Finding, Editing, and Deleting Content Chapter 4 Customizing Content Defining Custom Types of Content Putting Images and Styled Text in Content Chapter 5 Making Content Interactive Enabling Interactive Content Types Categorizing Content with Taxonomies Mastering Text Formats Mastering Image Styles Chapter 6 Improving Access to Content Making Content Searchable Directing Traffic with Menus Laying Out Your Site with Blocks Chapter 7 Wrangling Users Managing User Accounts Controlling How Users Interact with Their Accounts Defining User Roles and Permissions Building and Protecting Your User Community Chapter 8 Customizing Drupal's Look and Feel Creating a New Theme Changing Theme Graphics and Typography with CSS Chapter 9 Extending Drupal with Modules Using Modules Modules: The Drupal 7 Challenge Resources for Evaluating Modules Appendix Getting (and Giving) Help Glossary Drupal Terms and Culture Index

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Tom Geller (Oberlin, OH) is a full-time freelance writer whose recent clients have included Apple, IEEE, ACM, Nature.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Safari Books Online, and Lynda.com.

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