Sub-title:
The Context You Need Without the Jargon You Don't
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Publication date:
2012-08
Page count:
328
ISBN-13:
978-1449325046
Publisher’s description:
If you’re a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this hands-on book will give you the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick.
With this book, site builders and designers familiar with HTML and CSS get a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers—at a price that’s lower than these three books combined. You also get special “director’s material” you won’t find anywhere else.
- Plan and estimate your project by discovering your client’s goals and audience perceptions
- Choose the right modules for your project, and learn about several go-to modules
- Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
- Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently
- Discover how to work with Drupal on the command line
- Set up a development environment, and learn how to collaborate on code with others
- Learn the basics of Git—the free, open source version control system
Comments
Not sure if it's Ok for me
I'm thinking about moving from WP to Drupal. I'm not actually a designer but I worked at support and I was able to wrap my head around WP. Do you think I still need the book?
I know this is an old comment, but...
I still think this book is amazing and highly recommend it. I consider myself fairly versed with Drupal (well, certain iterations of Drupal, I suppose), and Nordin did a spectacular job of helping me put together a whole new setup. The thing about this book is that it serves as an excellent off-screen resource. I really like to have a tangible book to guide me or refer to for many things, which is a lot of the value of Nordin's book.
If you're still considering it (old comment, I know), definitely look into it. Nordin covers layouts, processes, proposals, etc., in this book, so it's a worthy purchase for many types of Drupal site maintainers.
Big expectation from this book
Just started working on first drupal site.
Until few months ago all my sites was joomla ,wp or pure html.
Hope drupal will bring to me great new experience and that this book (that i just bought online) give me what i need to learn drupal faster . ;)