Drupal For Dummies (eBook)

Lynn Beighley, Seamus Bellamy (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2011 | 2. Auflage
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-14749-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Learn to set up, manage, and administer a Drupal web site

Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed web sites, and Drupal 7 is the easiest version to use yet. This new edition teaches you the fast, fun, and easy way to get started with Drupal. Even if you have no Drupal experience, you'll quickly learn how to download and install Drupal, set up your first content-managed site, apply templates, use modules, and more.

Drupal gurus Lynn Beighley and Seamus Bellamy show you how to take advantage of what Drupal has to offer, make the most of the new features in Drupal 7, and demystify perplexing Drupal issues.

• Drupal is a free, open source modular framework and content management system designed for content-managed web sites
• Shows you how to download Drupal; no programming experience required
• Looks at Drupal 7 and explains new features that make it is easier to use than previous iterations of Drupal for a creating a blog, content site, or eBusiness site
• Explains how to organize and create your site's content, apply templates, and get your first site up and running
• Details the ways to use modules and third-party templates

Whether you're looking to implement a flexible content management system, turbocharge a blog with photo galleries, or administer a third-party Drupal site, this book gets you off to a running start!

Lynn Beighley is an author, web designer, and web developer who has written both books and training courses. She is the author of jQuery For Dummies.

Seamus Bellamy, a former tech journalist who has worked in the security intelligence community, is the author of Joomla! For Dummies.

Inhalt

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Drupal 7

Chapter 1: The Big Picture 9

Chapter 2: Getting and Installing Drupal 21

Chapter 3: Essential Administration 47

Chapter 4: Tackling User Management 61

Part II: Your First Drupal Site 81

Chapter 5: Creating Content: Basic Pages and Articles 83

Chapter 6: Managing Your Content 99

Chapter 7: Changing Themes 117

Chapter 8: Building Blocks and Managing Menus 125

Chapter 9: Using Modules to Create a Site with a Blog and Forum
147

Part III: Bending Drupal to Your Will 173

Chapter 10: Advanced Administration 175

Chapter 11: Customizing Themes 199

Part IV: Taking Drupal to the Next Level 217

Chapter 12: Creating a Robust Website 219

Chapter 13: Using Drupal Gardens 239

Chapter 14: Interacting with Other Sites 259

Chapter 15: Building a Storefront 275

Part V: The Part of Tens 299

Chapter 16: Ten Must-Have Drupal Modules and Themes 301

Chapter 17: Ten Places to Help You Do More with Drupal 313

Index 321

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Content Management Systeme
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Web / Internet ► Web Design / Usability
• Schlagworte: Computer Science • Drupal for beginners, using Drupal, learn Drupal, administering content-managed Web sites, building Web sites with Drupal, how to use Drupal, administering Drupal sites, Drupal for non-programmers, learn to use Drupal, learning Drupal, content-managed sites, web site development, web site administration, blog development, content management, site management, web site management, LAMP, LAMP stack, open-source frameworks, open-source web sites, how to create a drupal site, guide to creating a drupal site, boo • Informatik • Webentwicklung • Web-Entwicklung • Web Site Development
• ISBN-10: 1-118-14749-9 / 1118147499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-14749-8 / 9781118147498