Product DescriptionThis book updates the bestselling Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites for Drupal 6, the latest, much improved version of this popular open-source Content Management System. Targeting readers with little experience in website design, unfamiliar with PHP, MySQL or HTML, and with little to no experience of Drupal, it looks pragmatically at the steps needed from knowing you want a website right through to designing and building it like a pro, and then successfully managing and maintaining it. Experienced author David Mercer uses a friendly, engaging style that is clear and concise, allowing readers to advance rapidly until they can tackle any problem with confidence. Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible open-source CMS platform that empowers anyone to create a website or blog and is rapidly becoming first choice of people in the know. With this powerful tool you need not pay professionals to design a site; you can do the job yourself.
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Rating: - IMPORTANT: Check your book pages total
Inspect the book that you receive from Amazon 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!
Amazon 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Easy to Understand Drupal book
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.
Rating: - Recommend as a buy for new users...
...as an introduction to Drupal 6 and especially those individuals intending to build a Drupal site.
While researching and learning about Drupal 6 I bought and used this book, along with quite a bit of information provided on the Drupal main site. It is now full of little post-it notes to pages I used or referred to constantly while building our web site.
One of my immediate feelings is it could have been quite a bit larger, especially at the retail price of $44.99 US, coming it ... Read More
Rating: - Excellant Start
I was really struggling with understanding Drupal before I read this book. This book laid out what I needed to know in a step by step manner that was easy for me to understand.
For example, I was having a hard time understanding how I could reference a page of content. How do you know what node number it is anyway? This book explained it to me.
There are many more advanced topics that I am sure will come in handy as I use Drupal more.
- IMPORTANT: Check your book pages total
- Easy to Understand Drupal book
- Recommend as a buy for new users...
