Ebook: Drupal 7 Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2012. - 324 pagesISBN: 1849517967Over 70 recipes that will advance your Drupal skills from novice to proOverview
Install, set up, and manage a Drupal site and discover how to get the most out of creating and displaying content
Become familiar with creating new content types and use them to create and publish content using Views, Blocks, and Panels
Learn how to work with images, documents, and video and how to integrate them with Facebook, Twitter, and Add thisIn DetailDrupal 7 is a modern Content Management System famed for its flexibility and power. Using Drupal you can easily create custom functionality that would otherwise have to be purchased in many of the other leading CMSs."Drupal 7 Cookbook" is filled with recipes to help you to do more with Drupal and improve your skills. Chapters range from content creation, to theming, to managing your site. You will learn how to create your own content types and use them to create Views, Blocks, and Pages. This book will take you from novice to pro in just 12 chapters.In a wide variety of practical recipes, you will learn how to work with views and panels, how to provide translations for your content to create a multilingual site, and to integrate your site with social media. You can develop the Zen starter theme or learn how to create custom cross-browser compatible Drupal themes, including themes for mobile devices. The Drupal 7 Cookbook contains all of the means necessary to take your skills from those of a novice Drupal user to a proficient site builder.What you will learn from this book
Create and work with content nodes
Organize your site with Blocks and Menu Blocks
Work with Views and Custom Content Types (CCK)
Building pages using Panels
Personalize your site with a document library, an image slideshow, or a custom Drupal 7 theme
Learn how to provide your site visitors with multilingual content
Manage user accounts, roles, and permissions
Maintain, optimize and back up your Drupal siteApproachAs part of Packt's cookbook series, this book is packed with practical recipes that you can read as and when you need or want to.Who this book is written forThis book is for people who are familiar with the concepts of web development and CMS. If you have previous experience of working with Drupal, then this book will further your knowledge and give you ideas for fun new things to do with Drupal.Dylan James is an open source developer from and based in South Wales. After gaining a Computer Science degree from Cardiff University, Dylan got experience as a database developer for Walkers snack foods before going on to work at the Welsh media company, Tinopolis Interactive, where he worked as a Lead Flash developer on some large projects for clients such as the BBC, LearnDirect, the MoD, and The Cambridge University Press. It was at Tinopolis that Dylan got his first taste of developing using open source platforms, delivering sites for clients using Joomla and Moodle.After leaving Tinopolis in 2010, Dylan began working at a web agency in Swansea, creating Drupal websites for some high profile clients.