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Beginning Drupal 7

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  1. Todd Tomlinson
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  • This book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction to Drupal

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Creating and Managing Content

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 9-23

  4. Creating and Managing Users

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 25-35

  5. Taxonomy

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 37-50

  6. Creating Menus

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 51-58

  7. Installing Themes

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 59-69

  8. Drupal Blocks

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 71-81

  9. Drupal Modules

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 83-95

  10. Enabling Interactive Capabilities

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 97-117

  11. Content Types

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 119-149

  12. Views

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 151-173

  13. Panels

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 175-196

  14. Theming

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 197-214

  15. Administering Your Drupal Site

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 215-227

  16. Putting It All Together

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 229-237

  17. Case Study

    • Todd Tomlinson
    Pages 239-256

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 257-316
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About this book

This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

  • Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform.
  • Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal.
  • Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7.

About the author

Todd Tomlinson is a seasoned IT executive with 36 years of experience crossing multiple continents and technologies. He is a former Senior Director of EBusiness Strategy for Oracle Corporation, Senior Manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Practice Director for IBM, Vice President for Claremont Technology Group,co-Founder-Vice President-and CTO of Emerald Solutions, Senior Managing Partner for CNF Ventures, Vice President of the Drupal Consulting Practice at ServerLogic. Todd is currently the Senior Enterprise Drupal Architect for Unicon. Todd's passion for the web began in 1987 when he worked for the National Science Foundation at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh(Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) - and expanded when he helped Netscape Communication deploy their server platforms around the world in 1995-1996. He started using Drupal as a mechanism to teach advanced web design and development at the University of Phoenix, where he was the area chair and lead faculty member in the School of Business and Information Technology. He has helped many of the worlds largest organizations refocus their business around the web. He is the author of Pro Drupal 7 Development, Beginning Drupal 7, and Beginning Drupal 8 (Apress Publishing).

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