Drupal 6 Site Blueprints: LITE

In Detail

Drupal is a powerful CMS used to build all kinds of web sites. But when you're urgently tasked with building a specific kind of site, it's not always obvious which plugins to use or where to begin. If I could show you simple directions to create Drupal web sites for personal or business use within a day, without the initial need to bother about the in-depth details of using Drupal, would you be interested? Build first learn later!

Drupal 6 Site Blueprints LITE is a project-based guide to developing web applications with Drupal. You will learn to full advantage of the powerful core features offered by the Drupal framework together with the many available contributed modules and themes to develop applications within hours.

You will see how to build 3 sites - an personal web site, an events site, and an ecommerce site

You will be guided, by means of illustrated hands-on example projects, to build foundation projects that you may easily adapt or enhance to create even more powerful web projects. If you want to develop exciting web applications for profit or pleasure this book is for you.

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Approach

Each chapter is dedicated to a hands-on example project, which are based on fictitious web site development briefs that illustrate practical ways of applying Drupal. Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions for building the web project, aided by the extensive use of screenshots.

When you have completed each project, you will have the knowledge and confidence to apply the techniques you have learned to create your own custom web application.

Who this book is for

This book is for anybody who wants to build Drupal sites, and see how to apply the many available Drupal plugins and features in different scenarios. If you develop Drupal sites professionally, or would like to try building web sites as a freelancer, this is a great book to help you get started.