Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6

In Detail

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.

What you will learn from this book?

• Plan and consider various design aspects of your site
• Install, set up, and configure a Drupal development machine
• Find your way around the vast array of Drupal settings with ease
• Add and work with modules to enhance your website's functionality
• Control and manage your site's content
• Deal with security issues, users, and access control
• Implement a customized interface for your website
• Add powerful new features and learn advanced techniques
• Deploy, manage, and maintain your website

Approach

Written in the same style as the original Drupal title, this book is a pragmatic look at the steps necessary to get a website up and running. Drawing on years of writing experience, David Mercer utilizes a friendly, engaging style that is both clear and concise - perfect for the Drupal newbie.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for people with little or no experience in website design, people who are not familiar with PHP, MySQL or HTML, and above all people with little to no experience in using Drupal. Even intermediate Drupal users will find this book of interest although it is specifically aimed at pushing beginners up the learning curve.

詳細內容：
Drupal是一個非常受歡迎且廣泛慶祝的開源內容管理系統，逐日成為人們建立博客和其他網站的首選。互聯網之父Tim Berners-Lee、Hillary Clinton等許多人都使用Drupal來滿足他們的在線需求。

Drupal是一個設計優雅、得到良好支持且靈活的平台，任何人都可以使用它來創建自己的網站。有了這樣一個強大的工具，您再也不需要支付專業人員來設計網站，因為您可以完全免費自己完成同樣的工作。只需要一點練習！

這本書滿足了對於如何從知道您想要一個網站一直到像專業人士一樣設計和構建網站，最終成功管理和維護網站的需求。經驗豐富的技術作家David Mercer以平實、清晰、簡潔且實用的方式，熟練地引導讀者通過構建專業網站的所有階段。尤其針對Drupal的初學者，本書將使讀者能夠快速提升學習曲線，自信地解決任何問題。

從本書中您將學到什麼？
- 計劃並考慮網站的各種設計方面
- 安裝、設置和配置Drupal開發機器
- 輕鬆找到Drupal設置的各種選項
- 添加並使用模塊來增強網站的功能
- 控制和管理網站的內容
- 處理安全問題、用戶和訪問控制
- 為您的網站實施自定義界面
- 添加強大的新功能並學習高級技巧
- 部署、管理和維護您的網站

方法：
本書以與原始Drupal標題相同的風格撰寫，是一本實用的指南，介紹了啟動和運行網站所需的步驟。David Mercer借鑒多年的寫作經驗，使用友好、引人入勝的風格，既清晰又簡潔，非常適合Drupal新手。

本書適合對網站設計沒有或很少經驗的人，對PHP、MySQL或HTML不熟悉的人，尤其是對使用Drupal沒有或很少經驗的人。即使是中級Drupal用戶也會對本書感興趣，儘管它專門針對初學者推動學習曲線。