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Drupal 7

By : David Mercer
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Drupal 7

By: David Mercer

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible open-source CMS platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. What's more, the latest version of Drupal 7 includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers. Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for a wide range of websites. The White house and the British government, to name but a few, turn to Drupal to fulfill their online requirements.</p> <p>This book provides the best way to learn and master Drupal 7, enabling you to create virtually any type of website. It meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to design and build sites like a pro.</p> <p>With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!<br /><br />By clearly and concisely demonstrating the fundamentals of Drupal and combining this with practical and methodical coverage of more advanced subjects, this book paves the way for anyone to quickly become proficient at building and operating professional websites.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><a href="http://smepals.com/create-website">Online Web design tutorials</a></span> will help you to consolidate and expand on what you learn in the book. It is an indispensable companion for anyone and everyone interested in building a website.</p> <p>Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow you to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Summary


With this chapter out of the way, you should have a good understanding of how flexible and powerful Drupal really is. By creating new content types and adding and managing their associated fields, it is possible to easily create a wide range of content types to suit your every need. As we progress, you'll see that we can further manipulate our content to create powerful features and that fields play an important role in facilitating this.

While fields are important in terms of creating focused and flexible content, one of the most important aspects of content management was highlighted with the discussion on taxonomy. Drupal's taxonomy system sets it apart from other CMS technologies and provides the facilities to implement pretty much any type of structure that we can imagine for our content.

Finally, we also discussed how the actual content, entered into the website via the content types and fields discussed earlier, can be controlled through the use of text formats. By using text...