Beginning Drupal 8

Beginning Drupal 8

by Todd Tomlinson
Beginning Drupal 8

Beginning Drupal 8

by Todd Tomlinson

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Overview

Beginning Drupal 8 teaches you how to build, maintain, and manage Drupal 8-based web sites. The book covers what Drupal is, using Drupal when building a new web site, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views.

The book also builds practical examples of common Drupal sites, such as a company website, a community website, and a commerce website, that you can take and expand on to create your own Drupal 8 sites. By reading this book, you will understand the power of the Drupal platform, and why you should be using Drupal if you're not already. Through following the samples in the book, you will quickly build your confidence and your ability to use Drupal. Beginning Drupal 8 gives you the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites on Drupal 8.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781430265801
Publisher: Apress
Publication date: 09/04/2015
Edition description: 1st ed.
Pages: 287
Product dimensions: 7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Todd Tomlinson is a seasoned IT executive with 36 years of experience crossing multiple continents and technologies. He is a former Senior Director of EBusiness Strategy for Oracle Corporation, Senior Manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Practice Director for IBM, Vice President for Claremont Technology Group,co-Founder-Vice President-and CTO of Emerald Solutions, Senior Managing Partner for CNF Ventures, Vice President of the Drupal Consulting Practice at ServerLogic. Todd is currently the Senior Enterprise Drupal Architect for Unicon. Todd's passion for the web began in 1987 when he worked for the National Science Foundation at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh(Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) - and expanded when he helped Netscape Communication deploy their server platforms around the world in 1995-1996. He started using Drupal as a mechanism to teach advanced web design and development at the University of Phoenix, where he was the area chair and lead faculty member in the School of Business and Information Technology. He has helped many of the worlds largest organizations refocus their business around the web. He is the author of Pro Drupal 7 Development, Beginning Drupal 7, and Beginning Drupal 8 (Apress Publishing).

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Drupal
• Creating and Managing Content
• Creating and Managing Users
• Creating and Using Taxonomy
• Creating Content Types
• Creating and Using Views
• Creating and Using Page Payouts
• Creating and Using Menus
• Creating and Using Blocks
• Theming Your Site
• Making Your Site Responsive
• Extending Your Site Through Contributed Modules
• The Anatomy of a Module
• Using Multilingual
• Administering Your Drupal Site
• Using Drush
• Using Git
• Putting It All Together
• Building a Blog Site
• Building a Company Website
• Building a Community Website
• Building a Commerce Website
• App A: Modules
• App B: Learn More
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