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Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6
written by David Mercer
Studio : Packt Publishing
by Packt Publishing
Publisher : Packt Publishing
Released : 2008-02-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781847192974
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 14 reviews)
List Price : $44.99
Our Price : $40.48
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Product Description |
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.
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!
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.
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.
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Drupal 6, David Mercer, Packt |
This is a good book to read even if you read Drupal 5 by the same author/publisher. It is a beginning level book but covers the new features nicely. This book assumes you do not know HTML or PHP.
The illustrations of the dialog screens are very helpful. There is a very nice one of cpanel and phpMyAdmin although they are not part of Drupal, they can be used for back-ups of your Drupal website.
This is a nice book to put on your bookshelf and get down when a problem comes up that needs to be fixed right away.
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OK, not fabulous |
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I found this a reasonable overview of Drupal with a fair amount of information on the topics of online support/documentation, installation and system management. It wasn't as deep as I would have liked regarding actual website design within the Drupal framework. Although there's enough to get you started, it didn't cover what I need to know, such as using categories to build selections of content. I was also disappointed at its Windows-centric approach, skipping Unix and Mac environments. Overall, I would have been happier with this book at half the hefty price charged for it. |
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IMPORTANT: Check your book pages total |
Inspect the book that you receive from Americancivilwar carefully -- check total pages against the TOC. There are defective books circulating. They look identical to the "correct" books -- in thickness and even with respect to the Production Reference in the inside cover. However, the defective book has some 40 pages missing!
Americancivilwar first sent me a book that was incomplete, and then followed with a replacement book that likewise was incomplete. (Took 1 month and three attempts before I ever saw a complete book.) |
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Strong in the material offerred, but I was looking for more... |
This is a great book if you want to learn how to setup a basic site based on the Drupal content-management system. Based on the materials in this book, you will have a customized web-site running in a few minutes, and be ready to generate your own unique content for publication. You can put together a blog, or aggregate your (and others) news feeds quite easily. Unfortunately, the book isn't perfect. In order to make your site look less like a site based on a template you need to learn to manipulate the various "themes" available for Drupal.
And in this one respect, the book falls a little short. You are taught how to apply themes, but it would have been very helpful to include a chapter steping-through the manipulation of themes. While I realize this might have been a challenge, given the number of themes available, an example based on the default theme would have given readers the power to learn HOW to learn the other themes.
In the end, this book gives you about 90% of what you need to setup a really great, unique Drupal site. To bridge that 10% gap and create a truly unique site with this powerful software you'll definitely have to use the copious forum and documentation resources available at drupal.org. Also, although this book doesn't require it, you would do well to take the time to understand basic HTML and PHP scripting. If you are unfamiliar with them, Google can help you educate yourself quickly. Even basic knowledge of either or both will help your comprehension of the material. |
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Easy to Understand Drupal book |
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This book has been wonderful. It is well versed and easy to understand. It gives the basics on Drupal and I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to set up a Drupal site. I am impressed with the author's ability to break down the basics in easy to understand sections. He takes it one step at a time and makes it easy to copy and initiate each section with lots of illustrations and hints. |
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