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Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

By : David Mercer
Book Image

Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

By: David Mercer

Overview of this book

<p><br />Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.<br /><br />Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!<br /><br />This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.<br /><br />Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Adding Modules


It is by enabling certain modules that you will be able to achieve a diverse, and more importantly, functional site. As there are plenty of modules available, I can't hope to bore you with the all the ins and outs of every single one. Instead, we will enable and briefly work with some of the more interesting and useful ones.

If there is a module required by your site that is not covered here, simply follow the same method of enabling and testing that is discussed throughout this chapter, and apply it to that specific module. You will be up and running in no time at all!

Before we begin discussing each individual module, head on over to the Modules section under Site Building in the Administer menu item, and decide which ones to enable initially, based on your site's forecasted needs. Bear in mind that it is very easy to come back at a later stage and add or remove modules—this is part of the beauty and power of a system like Drupal.

For the purposes of this chapter, we will...