Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781847192974
ISBN: 1847192971
Label: Packt Publishing
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 380
Publication Date: April 04, 2008
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Release Date: April 04, 2008
Studio: Packt Publishing
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In Detail
Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.
Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!
This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.
Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.
What you will learn from this book?
- Plan and consider various design aspects of your site
- Install, set up, and configure a Drupal development machine
- Find your way around the vast array of Drupal settings with ease
- Add and work with modules to enhance your website's functionality
- Control and manage your site's content
- Deal with security issues, users, and access control
- Implement a customized interface for your website
- Add powerful new features and learn advanced techniques
- Deploy, manage, and maintain your website
Approach
Written in the same style as the original Drupal title, this book is a pragmatic look at the steps necessary to get a website up and running. Drawing on years of writing experience, David Mercer utilizes a friendly, engaging style that is both clear and concise - perfect for the Drupal newbie.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for people with little or no experience in website design, people who are not familiar with PHP, MySQL or HTML, and above all people with little to no experience in using Drupal. Even intermediate Drupal users will find this book of interest although it is specifically aimed at pushing beginners up the learning curve.
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I like this book because it focuses on one topic - how to build a community site with drupal and it does justice to the topic. There is an overview of drupal explaining basic concepts. Then it gets into using different available modules for a community site and how to use them.
I had never worked on Drupal before (coming from java world). But I was able to get my site up and running in a week with minimal coding. Chapter 1-6 are particularly important and interesting.
Someone more familiar with drupal can appreciate the book even more. But I would not recommend it for advanced users / developers of drupal because they can just get the relevant modules and put them together easily. This book is for beginners and mid level experts.
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Save your money, this book is not worth the money.
I would recommend the Drupal book by O'Riley instead.
This book is very basic, some of the steps the author provides do not work!!
especially about adding modules in the beginning of the book.
The author does not provide any details about setting up a production environment, what to look for etc. He just talks about setting up a development environment by download either xAMPP etc.
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This book could be titled "Drupal 6 by the clicks". It is primarily a tour of installing Drupal and accomplishing limited initial tasks mouse-click, by mouse-click. There is a short introductory chapter on the origins of Drupal, its purpose and potential uses.
Then it is off to installing Drupal. Some of the warnings are curious: telling a user to learn Drupal on a local machine so people don't get a poor impression of their web building schools? I think that the author apparently believes web novices would attempt using Drupal is amusing.
In Chapter 3, Mercer jumps immediately into third-party modules, without reviewing available built-in modules. To learn what those are, Mercer refers you to Drupal itself. Very odd.
Virtually everything is based on mouse-clicks. Click here, click there. The accompanying advice is superficial and often trite.
Overall, this is a by-the-numbers guide to setting up a minimal Drupal install. At ... Read More
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Another Drupal book I bought for a co-worker, both books are good books, each has some information the other doesn't!
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The author claims that this book is for people with "little to now experience in website design," so I was expecting a book with easy to follow instructions for installing Drupal and setting up my site (by the way, that is exactly what the book says and not my typo). I was very disappointed.
When I first tried to create my own site with Drupal, I found that it was difficult to install. I read and re-read the Drupal tutorials, went to their forums, and searched like crazy on the internet to find answers, but I had no luck. Frustrated beyond belief, I decided to buy this book hoping it had the answers I needed, but I was wrong. The installation instructions were very unclear and the troubleshooting solutions just tell you to go to Drupal's own tutorials that I have already read. Who wants to buy a book that sends you to websites you've already been to? I ended up completely disregarding the instructions, and even after figuring out how to install Drupal with help from ... Read More
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