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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

Introducing your site-building scenario


Your site-building scenario is to set up a simple website for your own small business which specializes in offering a number of Drupal-specific digital services.

Types of content

The simple website will include the following types of content:

Pages

The website comprises pages which contain rich text, embedded images, and links to other areas of the site.

Pages need to be directly linked from within the Main navigation menu.

Articles

The Article content type will be used to implement the general articles, blog, and news features on the site.

Whether or not a particular article node is deemed to be a general article, blog post, or a news item will be specified by using a Category Taxonomy of either 'Articles', 'Blog posts', or 'News'.

Additionally, articles can be free tagged with one or more words or phrases from an organic collection of categorizing terms or 'Tags'.

Articles can be illustrated with images.

Articles should be comment-enabled so that users of the...