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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

Content-related modules


It's a safe bet that there are far more content-related modules available than we have room to discuss in this chapter. However, if there is something specific you need to do, it is always worth checking out what modules are available in Drupal before attempting to build anything by yourself. There are hundreds and hundreds of modules to choose from, and even if there isn't one that does exactly what you need, you can often get fairly close with the available modules and then work from there.

This section will look over a couple of content modules that you will most likely need at some stage. They are both modules that ship with the core, but we will be downloading important content-related contributions in the coming chapters too.

Aggregator

One of the greatest opportunities available to web-based communities is the ability to readily share information. All that is required is a set of guidelines for how that information is to be presented; and once you have that,...