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Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: April 05, 2009
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-713669-2
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-713669-8
Web ISBN-10: 0-13-700775-2
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-700775-2
Pages in Print Edition: 456
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Overview
“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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"Do it with an existing website to practice on" - by Anonymous on 22-DEC-2010
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I got a lot out of this book, but would have gotten far less out of it without an existing Drupal site to enhance, because the examples aren't quite developed enough to read & do on its own. That made the lessons both more general (and useful that way) but less easy to apply without a site up and running and ideas of what to accomplish. But the coverage of tools (like Firebug) and debugging things was worth the time on its own, and there was plenty more! Though the last chapters on Javascript and jQuery were just a bit too hard. One frustration here was the typesetting - you cannot copy/paste a section of code without it getting mangled with extra spaces. That was a shame. Anyway - *well* worth the time spend doing this book!
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