Site administrators

Publisher’s description:

Learn to set up, manage, and administer a Drupal web site

Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed web sites, and Drupal 7 is the easiest version to use yet. This new edition teaches you the fast, fun, and easy way to get started with Drupal. Even if you have no Drupal experience, you'll quickly learn how to download and install Drupal, set up your first content-managed site, apply templates, use modules, and more.

Drupal gurus Lynn Beighley and Seamus Bellamy show you how to take advantage of what Drupal has to offer, make the most of the new features in Drupal 7, and demystify perplexing Drupal issues.

• Drupal is a free, open source modular framework and content management system designed for content-managed web sites
• Shows you how to download Drupal; no programming experience required
• Looks at Drupal 7 and explains new features that make it is easier to use than previous iterations of Drupal for a creating a blog, content site, or eBusiness site
• Explains how to organize and create your site's content, apply templates, and get your first site up and running
• Details the ways to use modules and third-party templates

Whether you're looking to implement a flexible content management system, turbocharge a blog with photo galleries, or administer a third-party Drupal site, this book gets you off to a running start!

See the original announcement about Drupal 7 Business Solutions’s release in the Drupal news section.

Publisher’s description:

• Build a Drupal 7 powered website for your business rapidly
• Add blogs, news, e-commerce, image galleries, maps, surveys, polls, and forums to your website to beat competition
• Complete example of a real world site with clear explanation

In Detail

You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business.

Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source.

You'll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you'll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar.

The book will then teach you to add e-commerce to your site so you can sell your products online. You'll add YouTube videos and Google maps to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers.

The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.

What you will learn from this book

• Install and set up Drupal
• Add blogs to attract customers to your business site
• Add customer accounts to your site
• Incorporate e-commerce in your site to sell your products online
• Integrate Google maps, YouTube videos, and e-newsletter with your site which will help you increase your profits
• Insert online surveys and polls in your site to improve business through customer feedback
• Take care of and maintain your site.

Approach

This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete business website using Drupal and enhancing it to include modern technology used by cutting-edge companies. All instructions are written in such a way that they make sense to readers of any technical level.

Who this book is written for

This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to set up a website quickly for their business using the super powerful Drupal open source content management software.

Publisher’s description:

With the recipes in this book, you'll take full advantage of the vast collection of community-contributed modules that make the Drupal web framework useful and unique. Learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop a variety of community-driven websites. Each chapter describes a case study and outlines specific requirements for one of several projects included in the book -- a wiki, publishing workflow site, photo gallery, product review site, online store, user group site, and more.

The second edition of this popular book is one of the few resources to cover Drupal 7, the latest version of the open source content management system. Newcomers will find a thorough introduction to the framework, while experienced Drupal developers will learn best practices for building powerful websites.

• Get an overview of Drupal concepts and key modules, with a bird’s-eye view of each module’s specialty
• Explore various solutions that meet the requirements for each project described, with details about which modules are selected and why
• Learn how to configure modules, with step-by-step recipes for building the precise functionality the project requires
• Get information on additional modules that will make your project even more powerful
• Be able to access the modules described in the book, along with other resources

Publisher’s description:

Drupal is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that many libraries use to create well-designed, easy-to-use and manage websites. Go step-by-step through the decisions and tasks needed to develop and launch a Drupal-powered site and learn the advantages of the open source approach. The book offers hints and suggestions to work with your IT department, colleagues, and management as you develop your technical specifications. The implementation chapter guides you through installing Drupal, adding modules, developing your own themes (page layouts), and describes librarian-created modules that have been shared with the community and can be downloaded and installed on anyone's site. You also get advice on marketing your site, best practices for project management and development, and measuring the success and impact of the site once it launches.

Table of contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Types of Solutions
• Chapter 3. Planning
• Chapter 4. Social Mechanics
• Chapter 5. Implementation
• Chapter 6. Marketing
• Chapter 7. Best Practices
• Chapter 8. Metrics
• Chapter 9. Developing Trends
• Chapter 10: Recommended Reading

Details from Packtpub.com:

Overview

• Prepare your Drupal site to handle content in different languages easily
• Apply the numerous multilingual modules to your Drupal site and configure it for any number of different languages
• Organize the multilingual pieces into logical areas for easier handling

Use the hashtag #PacktDrupalML on Twitter to discuss the book with the author, fellow readers, and Packt.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand the Drupal 7 localization structure and process
• Enable your Drupal UI to display in different languages
• Localize users based on language and country
• Employ effective search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for your multilingual site
• Update blocks, menus, views, and panels to work with multiple languages
• Set up language detection based on URLs, sessions, cookies, or domains
• Create translatable content types to support multilingual content

In Detail

Drupal is one of the most powerful and popular PHP Content Management Systems at the moment. By making your site multilingual, you are opening the door to a whole new user base, in as many countries as you like. Use the localization and internationalization features of Drupal 7 to automatically detect where your site users are visiting from and select the content appropriate to them. The world is your oyster!

Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites guides you through the wild world of localization and internationalization with practical and real-world exercises that you can apply to your own website. You will go from theory to practice and acquire the skills you need to make a user-friendly Drupal 7 site that supports multiple languages.

You will follow focused chapter exercises to add multiple-language support for your user interface, content, and various parts of your site’s configuration such as system variables, menus, and blocks.

The latter half of the book fills in the details with step-by-step exercises for localizing the interface, the content, and the configuration. Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites will give you the knowledge and the skills necessary to configure your site to support your language needs.

Approach

A practical book with plenty of screenshots to guide you through the many features of multilingual Drupal.

Who this book is for

Any Drupal users who know the basics of building a Drupal site and are familiar with the Drupal UI, will benefit from this book. No previous knowledge of localization or internationalization is required.

Details from Packtpub.com:

Overview

• Stop clicking around administration pages and start issuing commands straight to your Drupal sites.
• Write your own commands, hook in to alter existing ones and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.
• A practical guide full of examples and step-by-step instructions to start using Drush right from Chapter 1.

Use the hashtag #PacktDrush on Twitter to discuss the book with the author, fellow readers, and Packt.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to install Drush on different systems, and download and install a full Drupal site in seconds.
• Understand Drush’s command structure with options and arguments.
• Discover how to set a site to maintenance mode and other common settings with just one command.
• Back up and restore code, files and databases into one file.
• Learn to write your own Drush commands and name sites by aliases for even shorter commands.
• Manage modules and users, monitor messages and run automated tests.

In Detail

Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, shortening the development and maintenance time of a project drastically.

Drush User’s Guide will allow you to be more productive and efficient in building and maintaining your Drupal sites through the command line. You will learn to install Drush on different platforms, and manage and configure your Drupal site by learning how to use and create Drush commands.

Become a Drush expert by exploring its command toolkit; customizing it to suit your needs, and extending it with contributed modules.

The command line will allow you to download, enable and upgrade Drupal projects in seconds. Back up your files, code and data in one single file, clear the cache, interact with databases, and deploy sites to remote machines – all using simply the command line. Use Drush with your own commands or alter existing ones; and extend the toolkit with a long list of contributed modules.

Drush User’s guide has everything you need to extend your use of the command line to easily build and manage your Drupal sites.

Approach

A practical guide full of examples and step-by-step instructions to start using Drush right from chapter 1.

Who this book is for

Drupal developers or themers who understand Drupal administration’s basic concepts. Drush can make building any kind of website quicker and easier, no matter if it is a development environment, beta, a simple blog or a complex system.