Drupal 7 Explained


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Drupal made easy, by top Drupal trainer Stephen Burge, who teaches everything a student needs to know--and nothing they don't need to know! They'll master Drupal one easy step at a time, through a complete, real-world sample project. With crystal-clear visuals, simple explanations, perfect analogies, Drupal 7 Explained guides students up the learning curve--from confusion to results!




The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7


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The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will: Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples. Learn how to keep learning about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture. Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business. The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 was written by the following team of expert Drupal authors: Benjamin Melançon, Jacine Luisi, Károly Négyesi, Greg Anderson, Bojhan Somers, Stéphane Corlosquet, Stefan Freudenberg, Michelle Lauer, Ed Carlevale, Florian Lorétan, Dani Nordin, Ryan Szrama, Susan Stewart, Jake Strawn, Brian Travis, Dan Hakimzadeh, Amye Scavarda, Albert Albala, Allie Micka, Robert Douglass, Robin Monks, Roy Scholten, Peter Wolanin, Kay VanValkenburgh, Greg Stout, Kasey Qynn Dolin, Mike Gifford, Claudina Sarahe, Sam Boyer, and Forest Mars, with contributions from George Cassie, Mike Ryan, Nathaniel Catchpole, and Dmitri Gaskin. For more information, check out the Drupaleasy podcast #63, in which author Benjamin Melançon discusses The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 in great detail: http://drupaleasy.com/podcast/2011/08/drupaleasy-podcast-63-epic




Drupal 7 Explained Video


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In "Part I: Beginner" of Drupal 7 Explained Video , viewers will learn all of the essential concepts and knowledge needed to get started with Drupal 7. This part of the video training covers installing Drupal, navigating a basic installation, creating content types, using Modules, applying Themes, managing roles and permissions, and a doing a local install on a Mac or Windows machine with Dev Desktop. In "Part II: Intermediate," viewers will learn how to master fields, Views and Panels to create sophisticated Drupal sites. In the first three parts of the intermediate section, viewers learn how to build a movie website. Then the video tackles Views, which is the most important module in Drupal. Views allow the site to display the information entered in useful and highly customized ways. Next, viewers learn how to layout information using the Panels module. Finally, viewers get to practice everything that they have learned about Drupal so far and recreate the most famous Drupal website in the world: WhiteHouse.gov. Drupal 7 Explained requires absolutely no prior experience with Drupal or coding.




Drupal 8 Explained


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Key Features Updated for 2018: This is the newest version of the best-selling Drupal book. Clear instruction: Learn Drupal 8 by following plain English, clear visuals and enjoyable step-by-step instructions. Hands-on learning: Master Drupal 8 by building a complete Drupal site. Book Description Drupal 8 is an amazingly powerful web content management system. But many newcomers find it confusing, and most Drupal books are just too complicated to help. If you want to spend less time struggling with complex instructions, and more time building sites that make you proud, this is the book for you! Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners - and thousands more who've experimented with Drupal but haven't mastered it yet. Burge and the OSTraining team make learning fun. Like their online training, you learn by following enjoyable, step-by-step instructions. OSTraining books are written in plain English and are supported by plenty of online documentation and videos. Drupal 8 Explained requires absolutely no experience with Drupal, content management, website construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Please note: This book is 100% aimed at Drupal beginners. Drupal 8 Explained contains very little code, and that is absolutely deliberate. If you want to learn how to create themes or code modules, there are other books for you. What You'll Learn You'll master Drupal 8 hands-on, through a complete case study, crystal-clear visuals, simple explanations, and on-target analogies, all extensively tested with real Drupal beginners. Burge walks you through installing Drupal 8, planning sites that are easy to use and manage, adding content, and incorporating powerful site features without programming. Finally, Burge shows you how to run your site securely and efficiently, no matter how big or popular it becomes! About the Authors Stephen Burge has split his career between teaching and web development. He now runs OSTraining.com, which specializes in teaching website development. OSTraining.com's clients include Apple, Pfizer, and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Education, and Commerce. Burge's books are some of the world's best-selling guides to the software they cover. Other books by Burge include: Joomla Explained (Addison - Wesley, 2011) Drupal 7 Explained (Addison - Wesley, 2013) Joomla 3 Explained (Addison - Wesley, 2014) MySQL Explained (OSTraining, 2015) Drupal 7 Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Drupal 8 Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Joomla 3 Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Multilingual Joomla Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Magento Explained (OSTraining, 2017) WooCommerce Explained (OSTraining, 2017) WordPress Explained (OSTraining, 2017) Cindy McCourt is an experienced Drupal trainer, who coaches clients side-by-side to build internal Drupal capacity while planning and developing their Drupal solutions. She specialized in user experience planning, configuration, and code strategizing, site building and project management. Table of Contents Drupal Explained Drupal Planning Explained Drupal Installations Explained Drupal Administration Explained Drupal Content Explained Drupal Fields Explained Drupal Modules Explained Drupal Menus Explained Drupal Blocks Explained Drupal Themes Explained Drupal Views Explained Drupal Layout Modules Explained Finishing the Design Explained Drupal Users Explained Drupal Site Management Explained




Drupal 7


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Learn Drupal and you can create a website in hours - or less! Many of my students come to my 2-day Drupal class never having authored a website before. They always leave happily surprised at how easy, and user-friendly Drupal really is. Now you can learn the same lessons they do, at your own pace. This illustrated guide will answer the questions: How do I create an Article? How does an Article differ from a Basic Page? I really need my site to have a Poll, Blog and Discussion Board, what about those? Taxonomy? What’s that? All of those questions and more are answered inside. Best of all, you don't have to know HTML, javascript, php, or the like. ˃˃˃ Examples & Exercises Use the hands-on activities in this guide as a learning tool. Keep it close by when using Drupal as a reference tool. Scroll up and grab a copy today.




Drupal 7 Bible


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Guidance for administrators, content managers and web publishers on using Drupal for content management Start building and managing web sites with the open-source content management system Drupal 7 and this in-depth guide. Whether you're new to Drupal or migrating from another system, you'll find the tips and techniques you need to understand Drupal, create a new web site, or manage an existing one. Learn how to create, modify, and delete items-and much more-with the detailed tutorials in this step-by-step guide. Teaches you how to use a Drupal site, as well as how to set up, configure, and customize a new site, including obtaining code and deploying it to a server Covers advanced topics like multilingual content management, publishing workflows, or Views and Panels Shows you how to work with Drupal 7's new fields and custom content types Get on the Drupal bandwagon with this complete guide.




Drupal 7 First Look


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4. Drupal 7 Administration; New administration interface; Administration toolbar; Dashboard; Overlay window; Appearance section; Installing and updating themes and modules; Installing new themes and modules; Updating themes and modules; People section; Modules section; Configuration section; Configuring settings; Regional and language; Regional settings; Date and time; Language; Translate interface; Search and metadata; Clean URLs; Search settings; URL aliases; Development; Logging and errors; Maintenance mode; Performance; Testing; Media section; File system; Image styles.




Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration


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Follow the creation of a multi-site instance with Drupal. The practical examples and accompanying screenshots will help you to get multiple Drupal sites set up in no time. This book is for Drupal site builders. It is assumed that readers are familiar with Drupal already, with a basic grasp of its concepts and components. System administration concepts, such as configuring Apache, MySQL, and Vagrant are covered but no previous knowledge of these tools is required.




Beginning Drupal


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A thorough introduction that lessens the learning curve to building sites with Drupal 7 Drupal 7 is the latest version of the free, open source content management system Drupal. A powerful content management system and framework Drupal has an unfortunate reputation of having a steep learning curve. This guide to Drupal 7 methodically demystifies Drupal and shortening the learning curve. Author Jacob Redding is deeply embedded in the Drupal community, and walks first-time Drupal developers through the installation and configuration of a Drupal system. In-depth information on key areas of Drupal explore the Drupal hook system, Drupal's theming layer, and Drupal's API. You'll also get sample code, and lessons that guide you through various aspects of Drupal. Introduces you to every aspect of Drupal 7 Demystifies key areas of Drupal and shortens the learning curve for even the most novice beginner Features lessons and sample code that offer extra insight into a Drupal web site Exploring simple single website installations and more advanced multiple site installations that share users and/or content. Addresses how to use Drupal's theming layer to your advantage. With this comprehensive and clear book by your side, you will quickly learn to leverage Drupal's impressive power.




Drupal 7


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