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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!
About the Author
Emma Jane Hogbin makes Drupal easier through her books, videos, classes, and conference presentations. She has been teaching Internet technologies since 2002 and has been building Web sites since the 1990s. Hogbin has taught Drupal in France, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, New Zealand, England, and across the U.S. She has served as technical college instructor at Humber College and Seneca College and worked on curriculum development for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Her first book, Front End Drupal, is recognized as the most important book for Drupal designers.
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This review is from: Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site (Paperback)
Emma Jane Hogbin has outdone her previous works with this book. I have been using Drupal for a couple of years now and am self taught. Most of what I have learned has been from the internet such as reading online tutorials. The new version 7 of Drupal is a major step forward for this community and while much of the terminology and methods are the same, the user interface has been greatly improved. I needed a handy reference for this new version. After hearing Emma Jane at a local user group presentation, I decided to invest in this book. She does a great job explaining the Drupal system and has many examples for creating websites with Drupal 7.BTW, if you ever get a chance to hear Emma Jane in person, take it, she is an awesome presenter.
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Great book for beginners,
By Michael Anello - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site (Paperback)
Emma Jane continues to be a voice that resonates with new Drupal users as well as themers of all levels with her clear writing style and holistic approach to building Drupal sites. This book is well-written with chapters about less-geeky, but equally important aspects of web site development (site planning, information architecture, usability) that are often ignored in other Drupal books. When she does dive deeper into Drupal site building (most effectively with multiple case studies), her ability to focus on the important parts and not get bogged down in details (as is very easy to do with Drupal) is what makes this book a valuable resource for beginners.If you're new to the community (and starting with Drupal 7), this should be the first book you purchase. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Comprehensive, but approachable!,
By Jeff Eaton "jeff_eaton" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site (Paperback)
I'll cut to the chase: "Drupal User's Guide" is a good book, and if you're trying to get your bearings in the often-confusing world of Drupal site building, you should buy it. Period.I'm not necessarily the target audience: I've been a Drupal developer for almost six years now, and I tend to chew on more esoteric and nerdy problems than the ones this book tackles. I do a lot of training and education for clients and customers, though, and the approach that author Emma Jane Hobgin takes is fantastic for those who aren't already neck-deep in the world of Drupal (or a similar web CMS). She's an experienced author, teacher, and trainer who knows Drupal inside out, and it really shows. The book often mixes technical information about Drupal-specific features with introductions to the "soft skills" needed to use them effectively. Drupal's FieldAPI, for example, isn't just about clicking and dragging. Using it effectively requires understanding how to break down something like "An article" or "An event" into discrete chunks of information, and Hobgin tackles that without getting tangled up in the technical weeds. Similarly, chapters on installing Drupal include useful overviews of the other stuff that's needed -- web hosting, domain registration, and information about how to cope with "custom installers" provided by soem web hosts. The chapters of the book that deal with planning your site's structure also touch on SEO and accessibility. Many of those secondary topics have enough potential depth to justify their own books, but their inclusion works well. While that information can be safely skipped by old hands and experienced web developers, the result is a Drupal guide with valuable context, something that's often missing from purely technical books. Hobgin also pays attention to the current trends in the world of third-party Drupal addons. The chapters that cover design and theming explain how to build custom Drupal templates, naturally, but the book also gives some space to point-and-click design tools like Sweaver. While some people will always want to roll their own designs from scratch, it's great to see all the options covered. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Must Have to Start Your Drupal Site,
By Scott L. Wolpow "Too Many Books To Read" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site (Paperback)
Drupal is not easy. It has a very steep learning curve. Building a website is more complex than most people think.Hogbin spends the first third of the book instructing you on what goes into a great site. I never realized how vital that is to a person who has little experience in building real sites. If you are building a Drupal site, then congratulations, you are on the road to being a serious developer. From examples of types of sites, to getting into the role of the users of the site, this book cover it. As a starting point, you cannot go wrong. I highly recommend this book and I have added it to my list of books I give my clients. In fact buy this book just for the planning chapters. |
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