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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Appearance


Next, we'll go back into the Main Administration menu and visit the Appearance page:

This link takes to an administrative page where you can browse all themes and instantly switch your site into any of those available.

When you visit the page, you'll note that the currently active (default theme) is Bartik.

The other currently enabled theme is Seven and that is in use as the current administration theme and when create and editing content.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will also see an area labeled Uninstalled themes which currently only contains Stark.

The Stark theme is designed to show you what the raw Drupal HTML markup will look like without any kind of style applied.

Try clicking on the Install and set as default link to see it in action:

Having set Stark as the default, you'll need to click on the Back to site link in Toolbar to see it in action because the screen that you are currently on is an administrative page and is therefore using the Seven theme.

Having...