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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

Summary


This chapter focused on two quite different aspects of your website.

The first dealt with functionality and explored a couple of the more advanced modules available for us. Hopefully, you will find that you now know enough about the use of modules to feel confident in using any one you choose. Ultimately, you might end up creating and sharing your own modules for use by other members of the community, but for now, being able to generate a bit of cash on the side using AdSense as well as create your own custom content types should give you plenty to work with.

The second section of this chapter discussed how to use the resources available on the Internet in order to find complete solutions, or even partial code pieces that can be modified and/or incorporated into your site in order to give some great functionality. This has hopefully highlighted the fact that even if you aren't a programming expert, with a bit of searching and some basic knowledge of a few important web-based technologies...