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Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites

By : David Mercer
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Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites

By: David Mercer

Overview of this book

<p>Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.<br /> <br /> Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways.&nbsp; Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.<br /> <br /> Drupal’s power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken.&nbsp; This book takes you from initial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Drupal
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

CSS


The pages in a Drupal site obtain their style-related information from associated style sheets, which are held in the site's theme. Using style sheets gives designers excellent, fine-grained control over the appearance of web pages, and even allows you to produce some great effects. The appearance of pretty much every aspect of the site can be controlled from within a theme, and all that is needed is a little knowledge of fonts, colors, and style sheet syntax.

Before we go any further, it will make life easier if you have a readymade list of the type of things you should look at setting using the style sheet. The following is a list of the most common areas (defined by HTML elements) where style sheets can be used to determine the look and feel of a site's:

  • Background

  • Text

  • Font

  • Color

  • Images

  • Border

  • Margin

  • Padding

  • List

As well as being able to change all these aspects of HTML, you can also apply different effects depending on whether certain conditions, like a mouse hovering over the specified area...