| OverviewThis is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
The First Practical, Complete Guide to
Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and
Templates
Drupal is now the world's #1 open
source content management system: Thousands of individuals and
organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of
virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal,
they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity
of the sites it creates. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so,
but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End
Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal
developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual
designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal's
behaviors, themes, and templates.
While other Drupal books focus on module
development, Front End Drupal is 100% focused on
issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The
authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of
Drupal's powerful templating system, build sophisticated
community sites, streamline site management, and build more
portable, flexible themes. You'll also gain hands-on
experience through several case studies that walk you through site
creation and customization from start to finish.
Prepare and organize content so it's easier to integrate
into Drupal Web sites Structure Drupal page layouts that are easy for users to work
with Implement an efficient workflow for all your site
contributors Configure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to
customize your site Utilize Drupal's Starter Themes, as well as themes
converted from WordPress, Joomla!™, and Drupal 5.x Adapt Drupal page templates to control the entire site or
individual sections Customize site content, including individual nodes and teaser
summaries Maximize the power and usability of Drupal's content
editing forms Build great community sites with user profiles, comments, and
user-generated content Use JavaScript to make your themes more powerful, portable, and
flexible Create powerful animations and AJAX callbacks with
Drupal's jQuery library
Editorial ReviewsProduct Description“For Drupal to succeed, we need books like this.” –Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead “Drupal faces a common problem on the Web–the relative lack of new, high quality themes. Front End Drupal tackles this problem directly and is designed to help both experienced designers and rank novices get an understanding of how Drupal theming works. In fact, I’ll be the first to admit I learned a lot from this book.” – Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates Drupal is now the world’s #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal’s behaviors, themes, and templates. Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You’ll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums. -
Prepare and organize content so it’s easier to integrate into Drupal Web sites -
Structure Drupal page templates that are easy to work with -
Configure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to customize your site -
Utilize Drupal’s Starter Themes and themes converted from WordPress, Joomla!™, and Drupal 5.x -
Maximize the power and usability of Drupal’s content editing forms -
Build usable community sites with user profiles, comments, and user-generated content -
Use JavaScript™ to make your themes interactive and to enhance usability -
Create powerful animations and AJAX callbacks with jQuery, Drupal’s JavaScript library About the Web Site The accompanying site, frontenddrupal.com, contains all sample code and themes presented in this book. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 8 reviews. highly recommended, 2009-06-07 Reviewer rating: exactly what i needed when i had some designing problems in drupal. this newly published book provides much insight and tips on designing and theming in drupal. a rare kind of book. :) | Excellent book, wide topic coverage, well written..., 2009-06-04 Reviewer rating: As a "backend" developer and site builder, I approached this book with some scepticism - expecting it to be of limited value, given the type of Drupal work that I usually do. However, I was pleasantly surprised : the book is chock full of useful hints and tips, and I couldn't put it down. Although I've used Drupal for a number of years, I still found something useful in every chapter, especially in the back half of the book.
I found the section on javascript and jquery especially informative, and couldn't wait to start trying out some of the ideas proposed there on my own site. Also the chapter on theming content-editing forms (Chapter 6) was great, and the section on customizing the administration section (Chapter 8) was something that never occurred to me.
Overall, a great book, and a worthwhile addition to your Drupal library. | Not Recomended, 2009-05-31 Reviewer rating: I'm very disappointed of this book, went through 1/3 of it and can't understand a thing, this book cover all the subjects in a very shallow way and has more references to places online than actual instructions on what it's supposed to teach me. they didn't bother to include even one tutorial to show you how the pieces are coming together. will not suggest it to anyone I still can't understand how they managed to fill over 400 pages without actually saying a thing. | Great for Technical Developers, 2009-05-27 Reviewer rating: As a Drupal web design firm, we found this book an excellent resource for theming a Drupal website. However, it is not for beginners and assumes that the reader knows core Drupal modules and has a good working knowledge of PHP. That said, we're finding this book a good value with useful, indepth information. For those who may be a Drupal novice, O'Reilly Media's first Drupal book, Using Drupal, may be more accessible. | Mixed Feelings, 2009-05-22 Reviewer rating: Having never developed a Drupal theme (but being proficient in HTML/CSS/jquery), I found this a rather hard book to follow. It felt like the book really wanted to be a book about front-end drupal, but ends up spending quite a lot of time talking about abstract framework concepts, back-end features, and configurations (I recognize these are part of creating a user experience, but why the book choose to start with them is beyond me).
Chapter 3, the actual chapter on drupal themes was even more bizarre. There was perhaps maybe five paragraphs on making a theme. The rest is dedicated to talking about other subjects like converting themes from other CMS's and previous versions of drupal and whatnot.
The book feels more like "A Guide to Drupal 6 For People Who've Used Drupal 5 With the Stock Settings and Want To Know How To Customize It" than "Front-End Drupal".
I was hoping for a book that was more along the lines of "JQuery In Action" -- a book that is both readable and reference, and a book that is logically laid out from basic to complex. |
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