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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

Maintenance


I should make the following point very clear:

Note

All major development or changes to a site should be performed on the development machine and thoroughly tested before being implemented or ported to the live site.

There will be times, however, when you simply have to make some changes directly to the live site—even if it is only to implement upgrades that have already been tested out on the development server. If this is the case, then rather than allow users to browse a site under maintenance, visit the Maintenance mode page in the Development section, and select Put site into maintenance mode, provide a Maintenance mode message to display if the default one is not suitable, and get on with your work.

Be very careful when working in maintenance mode because once you have logged out you are effectively locked out too. This is because, by default, only one user (that is the administrative user) can do anything on the site while it is offline. If you log off and try logging in again...