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Learning Drupal 8

Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott, Richard Jones
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Learning Drupal 8

Learning Drupal 8

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By: Nick Abbott, Richard Jones

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
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Modern web designs need to take into account the device that is being used to view the content that Drupal is presenting. Different devices have different form factors from mobile phones, to tables, to traditional desktop computers. You may have heard of the terms 'Responsive design' or 'Adaptive design', and basically these mean that rather than having a different mobile version of your site for a mobile device, the content display is modified automatically depending on the device being used.

The following are examples of how content may be presented differently:

  • Show smaller images on a mobile device to conserve mobile data bandwidth.

  • Rearrange template regions to best present the most important information on a small screen size.

Responsive design relies on a concept known as a breakpoint. This can be thought of as the width of the screen in pixels where the design changes to a layout more appropriate for that device.

In the default theme Bartik, there are three breakpoints...

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