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Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site

Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site

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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 Drupal–with no hassle, no confusion, and no degree in computer science–this is the book for you!

Table of Contents:
Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv About the Author xxvii   Part I: Quick Start 1   Chapter 1: Introduction to Drupal 3 About Drupal 3 Online Content Management 5 How Pages Are Built 5 Types of Web Sites 7 Summary 16   Chapter 2: Installing Drupal 17 Hosting Your Web Site on the Internet 17 Installing Drupal 20 Summary 32   Chapter 3: Drupal Administration 33 Overview 33 Configuration 38 Administrative Reports 43 Help 44 Summary 46   Chapter 4: Site Recipe: Micro Web Site 47 Web Site Basics 47 Basic Pages 49 Creating Front-Page Articles 52 In-Site Searching 57 RSS Settings 57 Customizing Your Site’s Design 58 Summary 60   Part II: Planning 61   Chapter 5: Site Goals 63 Defining and Designing Success 64 SMART Site Goals 64 Your Competition 72 Summary 74   Chapter 6: Human-Friendly Web Sites 77 Defining Your Audience 77 User Scenarios 82 Technical Profiles and Minimum System Requirements 84 Summary 86   Chapter 7: Information Architecture 87 Information Architecture 87 Defining Content Types 88 Organizing Content 93 Conveying Content Structure 100 Testing the Organizational Structure 105 Summary 105   Chapter 8: Design for Drupal 107 Planning Your Page Layout 107 Embellishments 119 Design Resources for the Graphically Challenged 124 Test Your Design Structure 126 Summary 126   Part III: Case Studies 129   Chapter 9: Community Site 131 Site Profile 131 Basic Configuration 134 Configure Modules 137 Customizing the Display 151 Summary 166   Chapter 10: Business Directory 167 Planning the Site 167 Basic Configuration 168 Contributed Modules 174 Views for Recent Content 176 Business Directory 184 Summary 194   Part IV: Build Anything 195   Chapter 11: Core and Contributed Modules 197 Introduction to Drupal Modules 197 Summary 211   Chapter 12: Working with Content Types 213 Content Patterns 213 Default Content Types 219 Managing Content Types 226 Working with Fields 229 Summary 249   Chapter 13: Lists of Content 251 Menus 251 Breadcrumbs 256 Categories: Taxonomy, Vocabulary, and Terms 257 Views Module 262 Site Maps 274 Summary 275   Chapter 14: Recipes 277 Building Your Site 277 Extending Your Blog 288 Portals, Aggregators, and Reported News 290 Community Sites 293 Instructional Sites and Digital Collections 296 Commerce Sites 297 Summary 298   Part V: Extending Drupal 299   Chapter 15: Theming 301   Building Pages 302 Customizing Your Site Without Code 302 Contributed Themes 309 Building Your Own Theme 312 Summary 327   Chapter 16: Search Engine Optimization 329 Getting Started with SEO 329 How Search Engines Work 333 Fixing Your Site: The Factors Drupal Can’t Affect 335 Best Practices for Creating SEO-Friendly Content with Drupal 338 Web Statistics: Measuring Your Work 348 Summary 354   Chapter 17: Accessibility 355 Why Bother? 356 Building an Accessible Site 360 Creating Accessible Content 366 Testing Your Site 370 Summary 375   Appendices 377   Appendix A: Sample User Survey 379 Seniors Advocacy and Awareness Network 379   Appendix B: Preparing Your Development Environment 383 Full Development Environment 384 Windows 384 Mac OS X 384 Linux, BSD, and other *nix Variants 384 Customizing Your AMP 385 Revision Control 386   Appendix C: Advanced Installation of Drupal 387 Multisite Installations 387   Appendix D: CSS Grid Frameworks 391   Appendix E: Domicile Theme Files 397 domicile.info 397 page.tpl.php 398   Appendix F: Web Accessibility Guidelines 401 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 401 Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 403 Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 405 Section 508 405   Index 409


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780137041299
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Sub Title: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site
  • Width: 180 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0137041292
  • Publisher Date: 29 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 720 gr


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