Site administrators

See the original announcement about Drupal Web Services’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

A practical hands-on guide to integrating Web services with your Drupal Web site. It will start from basic understanding of web services to how your Drupal site can be integrated with web applications using web services. If you're are a Drupal user, webmaster, or an administrator who wants to integrate Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, LinkedIn, Kaltura and Mollom with your Drupal site then this book will be a good addition to your Drupal library. You do not need to have programming experience to use this book. Drupal Web Services is written for anyone who works with Drupal on a daily basis.

See the original announcement about Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

Discover an intranet solution for your organization with Open Atrium

• Unlock the features of Open Atrium to set up an intranet to improve communication and workflow
• Explore the many features of Open Atrium and how you can utilize them in your intranet
• Learn how to support, maintain, and administer your intranet
• A how-to guide written for non-developers to learn how to set up and use Open Atrium

In Detail

In today’s global society, online collaboration has gained tremendous importance as businesses look for ways to share ideas and collaborate easily. Open Atrium is a powerful and flexible Drupal installation that provides intranet solutions to businesses and organizations for sharing ideas. It is used to create intranets where co-workers or teams can collaborate easily. But Open Atrium is filled with so many powerful features that you may need some help to use it to its full potential. Open Atrium is also a viable alternative to SharePoint.

Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium unlocks the power of Open Atrium and guides you through real-world examples of an Open Atrium intranet. Examples and screenshots are used throughout the book so that you can follow along on your Open Atrium installation. The examples walk through setting up your site, user administration, implementing core features, and maintaining your intranet site.

This book starts off with explaining how to set up a web server on a Windows or Mac computer and install Drupal with the Open Atrium distribution. After installing Open Atrium you will learn how to add and maintain users. The book also covers some exciting topics such as the different “spaces” or “workgroup” micro-sites that can be created to match your organization’s structure. Reading each of these sections, you will understand and become familiar with managing the Open Atrium interface. Once you comprehend the Open Atrium interface, you will learn how to create a blog, document library, and issue tracker for each group's dashboard or site page. The book covers everything from editing a single piece of content to arranging the layout of that content on each page.

By the end of this book, you should be able to establish your own intranet site for your organization or workgroup using the Open Atrium Drupal distribution.

A how-to guide with examples and screenshots to guide you through every step of creating an intranet with Open Atrium.

What you will learn from this book

• Add all the major features of an intranet to your site with Open Atrium
• Get to grips with Open Atrium's interface and its features
• Install Open Atrium and customize it for your organization or company
• Create sub-sites (spaces) for each of your teams, departments, or workgroups
• Manage users and create a member directory
• Add core features packaged with Open Atrium such as Blog, Calendar, and Issue Tracker
• Extend the functionality of Open Atrium by adding pluggable features developed by the Drupal Open Source community
• Maintain your intranet by performing routine maintenance tasks
• Analyze your site's logs and reports to ensure that it is running in tip-top condition

Approach

Packed with screenshots and clear instructions, this book allows you to follow along with your own site and ensures you won't get lost. It's a how-to guide that guides you simply through each step.

Who this book is written for

This book is intended for beginning to intermediate computer users who either have not worked with Drupal before or want to expand their Drupal knowledge by installing Open Atrium. If you want to learn how to quickly set up an intranet to improve your organization's communication and workflow, then this book is for you.

Publisher’s description:

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSs
Web sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your site if an attack does occur. You’ll learn a strong, foundational approach to CMS operations and security from an expert in the field.

• More and more Web sites are being built on open source CMSs, making them a popular target, thus making you vulnerable to new forms of attack
• This is the first comprehensive guide focused on securing the most common CMS platforms: Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, and Plone
• Provides the tools for integrating the Web site into business operations, building a security protocol, and developing a disaster recovery plan
• Covers hosting, installation security issues, hardening servers against attack, establishing a contingency plan, patching processes, log review, hack recovery, wireless considerations, and infosec policy

CMS Security Handbook is an essential reference for anyone responsible for a Web site built on an open source CMS.

From the Back Cover

Protect your business. Protect your customers. Here's how:

Websites built on open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) are uniquely vulnerable. If you are responsible for maintaining one, or if you are the executive or business owner in charge of approving IT budgets, you need to know what's in this book. Here's the lowdown on very real security threats, how attacks are carried out, what security measures you need to take, and how to compile a disaster recovery plan. Don't wait. Your business may depend on the action you take.

• Learn what to look for in a hosting company
• Examine your website through the eyes of a hacker
• Explore the many tools that help you assess system vulnerabilities
• Discover ways to prevent problems before they start
• Know what steps you can take to protect your server from attack
• Create a workable disaster recovery plan
• Develop an IT security policy that can be implemented and followed

About the Author

Tom Canavan is a computer industry professional whose career goes from the mainframe era to the cloud. He is recognized as one of the very few top security experts in the CMS space, and was a keynote speaker and featured presenter at CMS Expo 2010 on CMS security.

Publisher’s description:

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.

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 Authors

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.

Publisher’s description:

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for building web sites using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management framework.

Written by active community members and contributors (“some of the brightest and most innovative minds in the Drupal community,” to quote Angela Byron, Drupal 7 maintainer), The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 covers the basics then quickly advances to in-depth exploration of the functionality and tools that make Drupal so powerful for building web applications. Just as important, this book provides the reader with a guide to participating in the Drupal community: an international, committed, rapidly growing community of themers, developers, and open source advocates who write the modules, test the code, and work ceaselessly to make Drupal great. The release of Drupal 7, with its dramatic improvements in usability and system architecture, will take Drupal to a new level of popularity, and this book will help give you the foundation and scaffolding to grow with Drupal.

With The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, you will be able to:

• Plan and build a complete Drupal site with core alone.
• Extend Drupal's functionality by selecting from thousands of modules.
• Make your Drupal site look like anything you want with theming and jQuery.
• Extend Drupal by coding your own modules.
• Install Drupal in many environments.
• Use essential tools such as Drush and Git to make your life easier.
• Contribute to the Drupal community as an organizer or a coder.

Who this book is for

Anyone who is serious about getting better at Drupal.

Table of Contents

• Building a Drupal 7 Site
• Essential Tools: Drush and Git
• Building Dynamic Pages Using Views
• There's a Module for That
• Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups
• Security in Drupal
• Updating Drupal
• Extending Your Site
• Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved
• Planning and Managing a Drupal Project
• Documenting for End Users and the Production Team
• Development Environment
• Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features
• Developing from a Human Mindset
• Theming
• Advanced Theming
• jQuery
• Introduction to Module Development
• Using Drupal's APIs in a Module
• Refining Your Module
• Porting Modules to Drupal 7
• Writing Project-Specific Code
• Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest
• Writing a Major Module
• Drupal Commerce
• Drush
• Scaling Drupal
• Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics
• The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal
• Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
• Search and Apache Solr Integration
• User Experience
• Completing a Site: The Other 90%
• Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles
• Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events
• Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal
• Maintaining a Project
• Contributing to the Community
• Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
• Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
• Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
• Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
• Appendix E: Accessibility
• Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
• Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
• Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
• Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop

Publisher’s description:

Finally, Drupal Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide from Planning to Finished Site

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.

• Walk through installing Drupal on Mac OS X and Linux Web servers
• Get comfortable with Drupal 7’s new administrative interface
• Build a basic site in minutes
• Create S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) site goals
• Audit your existing content so you can make the most of it
• Explore, choose, and customize Drupal themes
• Walk through building a community site with private discussion area
• Build a complete business association directory site
• Use Web forms to capture and display any kind of content
• Take advantage of Drupal’s powerful Views module
• Choose the right Drupal and third-party modules to build virtually any site
• Optimize your site for Google and other search engines
• Use advanced techniques to improve your visitors’ experiences

If you want to create great sites with Drupal–with no hassle, no confusion, and no degree in computer science–this is the book for you!