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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By : Dylan Spencer James
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Drupal 7 Cookbook

By: Dylan Spencer James

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal 7 is a modern Content Management System famed for its flexibility and power. Using Drupal you can easily create custom functionality that would otherwise have to be purchased in many of the other leading CMSs.<br /><br />"Drupal 7 Cookbook" is filled with recipes to help you to do more with Drupal and improve your skills. Chapters range from content creation, to theming, to managing your site. You will learn how to create your own content types and use them to create Views, Blocks, and Pages. This book will take you from novice to pro in just 12 chapters.<br /><br />In a wide variety of practical recipes, you will learn how to work with views and panels, how to provide translations for your content to create a multilingual site, and to integrate your site with social media. You can develop the Zen starter theme or learn how to create custom cross-browser compatible Drupal themes, including themes for mobile devices. The Drupal 7 Cookbook contains all of the means necessary to take your skills from those of a novice Drupal user to a proficient site builder.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Drupal 7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Jacques R. Blier, with his background in typography and communications, got quickly interested in Internet technologies. Since 1994, he has participated in the creation and implementation of Internet websites, and also provided training on new technologies. In 2004 he created his own computer services and communications business, xMac info.

With extensive experience in sales, technical support, training, networking, and user interface design for software used by cellular operators, Jacques became interested in Drupal, since 2005. Since then, he has been using this development platform for creating and developing all types of websites. He specializes in CSS and prefers to create the Drupal themes that people ask him, from scratch.

Anand Narayanaswamy is an ASPInsider who works as a freelance technical writer based in Trivandrum, India. He had worked as a technical editor/reviewer for various publishers such as Sams, Addison-Wesley, Mc Graw Hill, Packt, and ASPAlliance.com. Anand has expertise in the installation, management, and usage of popular ASP.NET and PHP based blogs/Content Management Systems (CMS). He is the author of Community Server Quickly (www.packtpub.com/community-server/book) published by Packt Publishing and runs www.learnxpress.com.

Sree (also known as Veturi JV Subramanyeswari) is currently working as Drupal Architect at a well known software consulting MNC in India. Post joining this company she served a few Indian MNCs, many start ups, and R&D sectors in various roles such as programmer, tech lead, and research assistant. She has around 8 years of work experience in web technologies covering media and entertainment, publishing, healthcare, enterprise architecture, manufacturing, public sector, defense communication, gaming, and so on. She is also a well known speaker who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Women in Technology, and so on.

She reviewed other tech books such as the following :

  • Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration

  • Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

  • Drupal 6 Module development

  • PHP Team Development

  • Drupal-6-site-blueprints

  • Drupal 6 Attachment Views

  • Drupal E-Commerce with Ubercart 2.x

  • Drupal 7: First Look