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The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates
Drupal is now the world’s #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal’s behaviors, themes, and templates.
Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You’ll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums.
About the Web Site
The accompanying site, frontenddrupal.com, contains all sample code and themes presented in this book.
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Web Page Design
Chapter 2: The Themers' Toolkit
Chapter 3: Working with Drupal Themes
Chapter 4: The Drupal Page
Chapter 5: Drupal Content
Chapter 6: Customizing the Content Editing Forms
Chapter 7: Users and Community Participation
Chapter 8: Administrative Interfaces
Chapter 9: Learning JavaScript
Chapter 10: An introduction to jQuery
Chapter 11: JavaScript in Drupal
Appendix A: Installing Drupal
Appendix B: Supplemental Code
Index
I purchased this book based upon first glance in the store. It talked about a step by step project example that would provide me with the jumping off place I needed to work with the CCK and Views modules.
After the first step in the project in the third chapter, they never picked up the project again. The CCK tutorial tells you how to create a custom content type but not how to use it. There are several places where they describe a task in the lesson, but it just does not jive with Drupal (Page 96 copy the main CSS file from one the zen folder to the sub-theme folder. It does not tell you which .CSS file is the main one. There is no file named main.css) There are additional mistakes, and unfortunately they have not addressed them on the books site. The topics they cover are a good selection, I kind of wish they had covered less of them and paid more attention to the detail that would take an OK book and turn it into a great one.
There is some good basic information, but this is not the book that Dries Buytaert makes it out to be in his forward
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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.
The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates
Drupal is now the world’s #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them ...