Leveraging Drupal Getting Your Site Done Right

Leveraging Drupal Getting Your Site Done Right

Pub. Date: February 2009 |Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated | Format: pdf |ISBN-13: 9780470410875 |ISBN: 0470410876 | Size : 9 mb www.woebooks.com

This book is a step-by-step guide and a hands-on co-piloted experience for those trying to make Drupal powered websites work for them, and for their clients. Much more than a "tutorial", what is needed is a nuts-and-bolts living mentor and guide which really shows the reader how to do the things really required for bringing it all together in a site which works. This will be the only book covering all the difficult components of Drupal: views, panels, themes, content creation, etc. The book will cover:

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* How to upgrade your hopelessly outdated and obsolete-software dependent site and bring it into the Drupal mainstream and future

* How to become a great Drupal themer and make "non-Drupal" looking sites

* How to really customize Drupal for your real needs

* How to start using best practices in Drupal web application development

* How to work like the pro Drupal shops and be ready for big projects - and small ones

* Learn by example (code samples, theme samples, videos) at every step

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Pt. I Launching Your Website as a Software Project

Ch. 1 Keeping It Simple 3

Ch. 2 Taking Baby Steps 17

Ch. 3 Getting Organized 53

Ch. 4 Getting up to Speed 87

Pt. II Getting Your 5.x Site Up-To-Date

Ch. 5 Finishing up the Elaboration Phase 109

Ch. 6 Pushing the Envelope 129

Ch. 7 Becoming an Expert Drupal Themer 155

Pt. III Upgrading Your Drupal Site

Ch. 8 Upgrading to Drupal 6 187

Ch. 9 Upgrading to Drupal 6 Revisited 213

Pt. IV Getting the Most out of Drupal 6.x

Ch. 10 Installing and Using Drupal 6 Fresh out of the Box 239

Ch. 11 Full Swing Agile Approach to Drupal Development 279

Ch. 12 The jQuery Chapter 323

Pt. V Drupal 7 and the Road Ahead

Ch. 13 From Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 and Beyond 365

Ch. 14 Deploying your Application as a Drupal Installation Profile 385

Ch. 15 Acquia Drupal as an Enterprise-Ready Alternative 411

Index 431