The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
Product Description
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will:
- Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples.
- Learn how to keep teaching yourself about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture.
- Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business.
What you’ll learn
- Launch a community-ready site in fifteen minutes.
- Talk to stakeholders and architect a site’s structure and functionality around the goals it must achieve to successfully launch major enterprise sites.
- Find, evaluate, and configure packages of code (called modules) that extend Drupal’s functionality.
- Theme inspired designs into functional, future-proof templates.
- Build modules when you need to extend what Drupal can do beyond the thousands of solutions already coded by others.
- Work with Drupal sustainably as a professional and as a participant in the Drupal community.
Who this book is for
Anyone who has heard of Drupal and has a personal or professional reason to learn more: from Drupal administrators, themers, and developers to moonlighters and intense hobbyists. People considering a solo or collaborative career making websites will find this book their complete stop for Drupal.
Drupal A User’s Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site
Product Description
The easy, practical, step-by-step guide to building great sites with Drupal 7… the perfect solution for Drupal’s notorious learning curve!
The free, open source Drupal content management system offers enormous flexibility, sophistication, and power – but, for most users, it also presents a steep and difficult learning curve. Most Drupal guidebooks don’t help: either they’re too technical, too daunting, or too narrowly targeted. This is a Drupal book for “the rest of us.” Drupal User’s Guide is easy to use, fun to read, and complete. Long-time Drupal site developer Emma Jane Hogbin guides readers through every step of building web sites with Drupal 7, from planning through going live and maintaining content. Hogbin covers both Drupal tasks and “web design” tasks, showing how they fit together. She also “humanizes” Drupal with plenty of interviews, case studies and real-life examples from the worldwide Drupal community. Readers will learn how to: 1. Evaluate, install, and deploy Drupal and the third-party modules they need to get the job done 2. Smoothly handle every step of the web design life cycle 3. Import and manage content of all kinds 4. Administer Drupal and implement efficient content management workflows 5. Use Drupal to build sites that are optimized for search engines 6. Meet today’s accessibility standards, including Section 508 This is the Drupal book thousands of users and potential users have been searching for – everything they need to overcome Drupal’s notorious learning curve, and begin taking advantage of its immense power.
DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010
A few weeks ago, CMS Report was asked to become a for this month’s . Between the late invitation and my in Internet activity this month, I have some doubts there is much time to “complete the deal”. Promoting last Spring’s was a lot of fun and is an example of how less involved folks like me can help give back to the Drupal community. So, regardless, of whether this site is a media sponsor or not for this conference, I still want to do my part in helping promote DrupalCon Copenhagen.
DrupalCon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupal developers and users to learn about, discuss, and contribute to Drupal, networking with other Drupal community members in the process. At almost every DrupalCon, you will have the opportunity to meet Drupal community leaders, top developers, your favorite module maintainers, dojo trainers, members of the Drupal Association, potential business partners, and future employees. If you attend a DrupalCon, I promise you that there is at the conference.
for DrupalCon Copenhagen include Dries Buytaert (Drupal Project Lead), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP Project Founder), and Jeremy Keith (Author of “HTML5 For Web Designers”). What’s interesting is you’ll find an appreciation for the keynote speakers that are not fully embedded in the Drupal community. As much as I enjoyed Dries’ “The State of Drupal” speech at DrupalConSF, the awesome talks given by Tim O’Reilly, David H. Cole, and and Andrew Hoppin still whispers in my head today. Attending a DrupalCon just doesn’t improve your game with Drupal but DrupalCon can also help improve yourself as a well-rounded IT professional.
If you’re in Europe this August and have a chance to stop by Copenhagen, it would be one foolish move on your part to not attend DrupalCon Copenhagen. It’s definitely not too late to for DrupalCon CPH. You better hurry though, because all indication are that those ticket prices are going to on August 16th.
Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide
Product Description
A large number of screenshots will guide the reader through the process of setting up a community site with the Drupal 5 or 6 framework. A number of popular topics, such as profiles, picture and video galleries, maps, messaging, groups, friends etc are discussed. Drupal is one of the best content management systems (CMS) around. In fact, it has won the Best PHP 2009 Open Source CMS Award and is a 2009 Webware 100 winner for the third time in a row. For about 9 years now, Drupal has been providing users with one of the best and most versatile frameworks around. The reader will be guided through the different modules and configuration settings needed to build a solid community site. And we go even further, by looking at how to structure content and making a few €, $, ¥, ¢, £,… from your site. It is going to be an exploration of modules and their features. The main strategy of this book it to use only out-of-the-box, user contributed modules. So anybody can make a great site. This well thought strategy offers us the following advantages: 1. Easy to update. 2. Anyone can do it. 3. Expansive: at any time, you can install a module safely, to allow additional functionality. Every function will be explained using the fully integrated case study Drupalfun. Anyone can build a social networking site with Drupal after reading this book. \
Qualys: Open Source Web Apps Called Often Insecure
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PCWorld: “Ninety-one percent of sites running the blogging tool Movable Type showed critical vulnerabilities, about the same as the 92 percent of sites using the Joomla! content management system, the 95 percent running Mediawiki, and the 85 percent using phpMyAdmin database management software.
The worst application for critical vulnerabilities was phpBB, a forum system, which showed issues in 100 percent of sites, while applications faring slightly better included Moodle (74 percent affected), Drupal (70 percent), and SPIP (65 percent affected).”
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Drupal 6 Attachment Views
Product Description
Use multiple-display views to add functionality and value to your site!
- Quickly learn about painlessly increasing the functionality of your Drupal 6 web site
- Get more from your Views than you thought possible
- Topics provide rapid instruction and results
- Concise, targeted information rather than voluminous reference material
- An informal, interactive style
In Detail
The Drupal View modules give you the flexibility and freedom to customize the display of your web site’s content. Defining custom content types is easy; however, it’s also possible to use various content types in a complementary manner on the same page! Attachment displays in Views (also known as Attachment Views), are a way to customize your web site with multiple displays that interact with each other and turn a nice site into a spectacular one.
This hands-on tutorial will teach Drupal developers across the experience spectrum how to use Attachment displays in Views, to make quick progress in functionality and added-value to users! Views are a common way to display a collection of similar content types on one page. What do you do if you want to display different content types simultaneously? What if you want to allow a user to interactively select which content they want, without using a menu? You can actually have more than one display within a view and views within a view.
This book starts by introducing Attachment Views as reader activities. Here, we create a single Attachment View and take a closer look at giving each page an interactive feel. It also shows you to create a View with an Attachment View. Later, using practical examples, it helps you to develop a 3-view composite display using two and three custom content types. You will also be able to develop a composite display using multiple Attachment Views, to provide a control panel of sorts from which you can view the various content types. Finally, we will put the home page together making use of Views, blocks, a flash slide show, and other pieces.
This book provides several examples of introducing additional displays onto a web page, and having them interact with each other. The result is pages that provide several types of information and behave more like a desktop application, increasing the value to your site visitors.
What you will learn from this book
- Provide more functionality to your site visitors without a technology change
- Create composite displays to increase and vary the information you can provide
- Enable dynamic displays using multiple content types, so that related content can be displayed simultaneously
- Develop views with record menus
- Create static and interactive displays, to provide additional information to the user
Approach
This is a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide. It uses a real case study in an interactive and informal manner, and presents examples that continue to build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples mean you can learn quickly how to increase the functionality and value of your web site.
Who this book is written for
If you are a Drupal developer of any level and you are waiting to explore Attachment Views, then this book is for you.
Someone does another Drupal vs Joomla comparison
It has been an extremely long time since I’ve done any type of comparision between . While I like to keep a close eye on both of these open source content management systems…I just haven’t felt the need to compare the two applications with each other. The rhythm of each of the two CMS are so different that I honestly don’t know what I would write in the Drupal vs Joomla post. Comparing Drupal and Joomla with each other is like comparing Country music and Jazz with each genre not really capable of diminishing the importance of the other.
This isn’t to say such comparisons can’t be interesting and useful. I definitely know how popular Drupal vs. Joomla! articles can be and the number of visitors such articles will bring to a site. If you’re interested in reading a new Drupal vs Joomla article, you can find such an article at.
Some of the comparisons are out of date or lack sufficient technical detail to fully support their conclusions. Furthermore, both Joomla! and the Drupal CMS are on the verge of releasing new versions, and , that will move both products in a positive direction.
This series of articles attempts to address where the technologies stand now, with a keen eye on the fact that both are moving targets as they approach new releases. The focus will be on using the web design software to build enterprise level websites, including those for large businesses, government agencies, and sizable non-profits, as this is the focus of Achieve Internet, based in San Diego, CA. We will examine the following topics from a technical perspective: baseline content management system (CMS) functionality, back-end appearance and functionality, and coding & customization.
If you’re interested in hearing more from Achieve Internet, the article you’ll want to read is .
Drupal theme development environment in Dreamweaver
How do you define sites in Dreamweaver for creating and Drupal theme with ? Dreamweaver is a rich HTML and CSS editor. By and far this software has been in the front position among web authoring softwares. In it’s latest versions CS4 and CS5 Adobe introduced new features that makes CMS themes. Key features like Related file, Live view, CSS inspect and CSS enable/disable are true time savers a cool experience for CMS theme developers.
Acquia Search now does more
Some of the most enjoyable Drupal moments for me was the time I spent in 2009 for Drupal. Acquia Search is a plug-and-play service within the , built on and available for any Drupal 6 site.
I think Acquia Search is probably one of the most significant services provided on the Acquia Network and the feature that will continue to attract businesses to not only Acquia but also Drupal.
So although I’m no longer on the Acquia network, I’m pleased to hear that have been added to this Apache Solr implementation.
Some of the more significant features being added to Acquia Search include:
- Attachment Indexing – Utilizing the module you can now search the text in document files such as PDF and Word documents. This is big! Even cooler, those documents can searched locally or remotely.
- Multi-site Searches – Search multiple Drupal sites at once.
- Update to Solr 1.4.1 which fixes a number of bugs.
- Wildcard Searches
