Drupal for Designers

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Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick.

This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects, ...

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Overview

Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick.

This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers—plus exclusive "director’s material." If you’re familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal’s learning curve, this is the book you’ve been looking for.

  • Get extra material, including an expanded Grids chapter, more recommended modules, and a Short Form Project plan
  • Learn how to work user-centered design practices into Drupal projects
  • Choose the right modules for your project, and discover several go-to modules
  • Use strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
  • Manage Drupal’s markup, including code generated by the powerful Views module
  • Learn how to work with Drupal on the command line
  • Set up your development environment and collaborate with other designers and developers
  • Learn the basics of Git, the free open source version control system
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781449325046
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/2/2012
  • Pages: 328
  • Sales rank: 680,730
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Dani Nordin is the founder of the zen kitchen, an independent user experience design and research practice focused on helping forward-thinking organizations and development shops create great things in Drupal. Her background runs the gamut from print design and branding to layout, site planning and user experience for the web, with a specialty in interaction design for content-heavy Drupal implementations. She has been an active member of Boston's Drupal community since 2008.

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Table of Contents

ForewordIntroduction Chapter 1: Some Things to Remember About Working with DrupalDiscovery and User ExperienceChapter 2: Setting the Stage—Discovery and User ExperienceChapter 3: User Experience—Techniques for DrupalChapter 4: Putting It in Practice—A Short-Form Project BriefSketching, Visual Design, and LayoutChapter 5: Sketch Many, Show OneChapter 6: Working with Layout GridsChapter 7: Putting It in Practice—Setting Up Fireworks Templates for DrupalSetting Up a Local Development EnvironmentChapter 8: The Drupal Designer’s Coding ToolkitChapter 9: Installing DrushChapter 10: Getting Started with GitChapter 11: Putting It in Practice—Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing DrupalPrototyping in DrupalChapter 12: Prototyping in DrupalChapter 13: Choosing ModulesChapter 14: Making Views Sing—Using Views to Enhance a LayoutChapter 15: Making Views Sing—Controlling Views MarkupChapter 16: Getting Started with Drupal Theming: Base and Child ThemesChapter 17: Making CSS Easier with LESSMaking It Easier to Start ProjectsChapter 18: Using FeaturesChapter 19: Working with Drush Make and Installation ProfilesWorking with ClientsChapter 20: Proposing and Estimating ProjectsChapter 21: Getting Clients to Love You, Even When You Have to Tell Them “No”Chapter 22: After the Handoff—The Project RetrospectiveSample DocumentsProject BriefWork Agreement (with Professional Relationship Clause)Project ProposalColophon

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