Drupal User's Guide  (English, Paperback, Hogbin Emma Jane)

The open source content management system Drupal offers amazing flexibility, sophistication, and power. The catch? Many first-time users find it difficult to get started, and most Drupal books don’t help with the initial stages. Drupal User’s Guide is different: easy to use, fun to read, practical, and complete!

Long-time Drupal site developer Emma Jane Hogbin guides you through every step of building sites with Drupal, from installation and site planning through launching your first site. Drawing on her experience teaching thousands of beginners, she covers both Drupal and Web design tasks, showing exactly how they fit together.

Drupal User’s Guide shows how to use Drupal 7’s newest improvements to build more modern, manageable sites for any business or organization. Hogbin covers crucial topics other Drupal books ignore, including search engine optimization and accessibility.

Salient Features

• Guides content managers, small business owners, and non-profit volunteers from "I need a site!" to finished, successful web site
• Humanizes Drupal with plenty of case studies and user interviews
• Reflects Drupal 7's latest improvements
• Covers topics like search engine optimization and Section 508 accessibility that most Drupal books ignore

About the Author
Emma Jane Hogbin makes Drupal easier through her books, videos, classes, and conference presentations. She has been teaching Internet technologies since 2002 and has been building Web sites since the 1990s. Hogbin has taught Drupal in France, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, New Zealand, England, and across the U.S. She has served as technical college instructor at Humber College and Seneca College and worked on curriculum development for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Her first book, Front End Drupal, is recognized as the most important book for Drupal designers.

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I: Quick Start
Chapter 1: Introduction to Drupal
Chapter 2: Installing Drupal
Chapter 3: Drupal Administration
Chapter 4: Site Recipe: Micro Web Site
Part II: Planning
Chapter 5: Site Goals
Chapter 6: Human-Friendly Web Sites
Chapter 7: Information Architecture
Chapter 8: Design for Drupal
Part III: Case Studies
Chapter 9: Community Site
Chapter 10: Business Directory
Part IV: Build Anything
Chapter 11: Core and Contributed Modules
Chapter 12: Working with Content Types
Chapter 13: Lists of Content
Chapter 14: Recipes
Part V: Extending Drupal
Chapter 15: Theming
Chapter 16: Search Engine Optimization
Chapter 17: Accessibility
Appendices
Appendix A: Sample User Survey
Appendix B: Preparing Your Development Environment
Appendix C: Advanced Installation of Drupal
Appendix D: CSS Grid Frameworks
Appendix E: Domicile Theme Files
Appendix F: Web Accessibility Guidelines