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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

Views user interface


If you haven't done so already, go to the Drupal website, download and install the Views module. The Views download actually provides three separate modules, as shown in the following screenshot:

All of them should be enabled before you continue.

With Views installed, you can now click on Structure in the toolbar menu, and then select the newly added Views option from the list. This brings up the LIST of available views in the Views overlay:

Any new views you create will be added to this master list, and it's easy to Enable or Disable them from here, as well as choose any one to Edit, Clone, or Export—more about these options a bit later. You'll also notice that Drupal provides a message at the top of the screen mentioning the advanced help module. This can be really useful because the vast amount of documentation that comes with Views is not available to you otherwise—so take a moment to install that at some stage.

Before we start working on our own views, let's enable...