Design and Prototyping for Drupal: Drupal for Designers

by Dani Nordin

Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme. In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.

Genres: Design, Computers

170 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Eugene Mah · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're new(ish) to Drupal, this isn't the book you want to start with. If you're an intermediate or seasoned developer looking to streamline or improve the dev cycle, you'll find some useful nuggets in this book.

The book presents a bunch of useful tips for the design phase of creating a Drupal site, using a website the author worked on as a practical example, and a number of case studies/interviews with professional Drupal developers.

As someone who hasn't done too much out-of-the-box Drupal stuff yet, I found it a useful read and learned a few new things about Drupal. It won't make you a professional Drupal-er overnight, but there are some good tips and tricks for designing and prototyping Drupal sites.