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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

System


The next section of the configuration page is concerned with site-wide settings. The section is broken into two subsections.

Site information

The Site information screen can be reached at Configuration | System | Site Information (admin/config/system/site-information).

It allows you to set some important site-wide parameters for your site.

Setting

 

Site name

This setting is used throughout the Drupal site to represent your site—from the <title> tag displayed on each page to the welcome e-mails sent out to new users.

Slogan

The Slogan field is used in the default themes and is the strapline or purpose of your site.

Email address

The main e-mail address of the site—this is the address that any contact forms will be sent to by default and the default from address of any messages sent out by the site.

Default front page

When a user visits your site domain name with no additional data in the URL, this is the page that will be presented. You can specify node/x where...