Drupal 7 Bible [Paperback]

Ric Shreves (Author), Brice Dunwoodie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 10, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0470530308 | ISBN-13: 978-0470530306 | Edition: 1

Guidance for administrators, content managers and web publishers on using Drupal for content management

Start building and managing web sites with the open-source content management system Drupal 7 and this in-depth guide. Whether you're new to Drupal or migrating from another system, you'll find the tips and techniques you need to understand Drupal, create a new web site, or manage an existing one. Learn how to create, modify, and delete items-and much more-with the detailed tutorials in this step-by-step guide.

• Teaches you how to use a Drupal site, as well as how to set up, configure, and customize a new site, including obtaining code and deploying it to a server
• Covers advanced topics like multilingual content management, publishing workflows, or Views and Panels
• Shows you how to work with Drupal 7's new fields and custom content types

Get on the Drupal bandwagon with this complete guide.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Finally, a solid reference for Webmasters on Drupal

Web content management systems (CMS) are hot, and the flexible and powerful open source Drupal is one of the most popular. Whether you're designing a new Web site or looking for an easier way to publish content to your existing site, this practical book shows you how to use Drupal 7 to do it. Learn how to create, manage, and present content via public or private Web sites, even if you don't have deep technical skills.

• Install Drupal and configure a Drupal site

• Use themes, blocks, and other site-building tools

• Format and manage content and handle media files

• Control spam, add authoring, and create hierarchies

• Master the Blog, Book, Aggregator, and other Drupal modules

• Get into e-commerce with UberCart shopping carts

Create content-rich Web sites with Drupal

Publish, organize, and manage Web content

Extend Drupal with modules and the API

Customize your site's appearance

Create forums, blogs, and polls

Create custom actions and triggers

About the Author

Ric Shreves is a partner at water&stone (www.waterandstone.com), a digital agency focused on open-source technologies and new media. He's been building Web sites professionally since 1999 and writing about technology for almost as long. His books include Mambo Visual Blueprint, Ubuntu Visual Blueprint, and Joomla! Bible.

Brice Dunwoodie is the founder of Simpler Media Group, Inc., and the publisher of CMSWire (www.cmswire.com), a niche online magazine focused on information management, enterprise collaboration, and Web publishing. For the past 15 years, he has consulted with a broad range of international clients, including Singapore Telecom, IBM, France Telecom, and others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 10, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470530308
• ISBN-13: 978-0470530306
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.6 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #365,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Best so far, but pretty basic June 20, 2011

By E. Williams

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book covers a lot of territory, but spreads itself thin. It is the best general purpose Drupal 7 book that I've seen currently available but it's painfully weak on key sections like deployment, backups and site management. If you're looking for something to get you up and running this is a good start, but it's not as deep as the "Bible" title would suggest.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good choice... ( Drupal 7 bible) June 23, 2011

By Hemant

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this book last week... I think the book covers only the WHAT part of everything in Drupal 7. It does not go any further.... I found Drupal in 24 hours to be a much much better book... And on top of that, tHere are so many cross references in the book that one reads more cross references than the actual text (at least in the kindle edition). It reminds me of the classical spagetti code that used to be in the earlier years in programming with the GOTO statements... There is also a lot of repitition in every chapter that kind of makes you think why are we not moving ahead... There is also not a single case study or a discussion of the alternativea approaches to what you are trying to do... I also felt, even as a Drupal newbie, that the coverage of topis was very superficial. In a nushell, I would say that the help text in Drupal provides a better explanation of things than this book. This is NO WAY A BIBLE.

1.0 out of 5 stars Info is seriously out of date March 26, 2013

By stu ducklow

Format:Paperback

This book is out of date. The "author" mentions an important module in Drupal called CKEditor and says it's still under development at the time of writing. But CKEditor is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Don't waste your money.