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Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

By : David Mercer
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Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

By: David Mercer

Overview of this book

<p><br />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 building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.<br /><br />Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. 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 />This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.<br /><br />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 readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

About the Reviewer

Larry Garfield holds both a bachelors and masters degree in Computer Science from DePaul University, where he was a co-founder of the school's Linux Users Group. He has been writing PHP since 1999 and is a Zend Certified Engineer. He has been active in the Drupal community for over two years, working on the Drupal core, various contributed modules, and user support, and was recently named as a member of the Drupal Association Board of Directors. In mid-2007 he founded and co-organized the GoPHP5 Project to help the PHP community fully transition to modern PHP 5 environments.

Larry is currently a programmer and technical architect for Palantir.net, a Drupal-based website consulting firm in Chicago, USA that works primarily with higher education and cultural institutions such as museums. Prior to that, he freelanced for Chicago-area businesses and political campaigns. Larry also worked for three years as an IT journalist covering handhelds and mobile phones.