Drupal 7 Explained: Your Step-By-Step Guide

by Stephen Burge

At last: Drupal made truly easy!
Master Drupal 7 hands-on, step-by-step, through easy examples from a leading Drupal trainer!
Drupal 7 is an amazingly powerful web content management system. But many newcomers find it confusing, and most Drupal books are just too complicated to help. If you want to spend less time struggling with complex instructions, and more time building sites that make you proud, this is the book for you!
Top Drupal trainer Stephen Burge teaches everything you need to know--and nothing you don't need to know! You'll master Drupal one easy step at a time, through a complete, real-world sample project. You'll find crystal-clear visuals, simple explanations, perfect analogies--all extensively tested with real Drupal beginners.
This Guide's quick, easy coverage includes
- Planning a site that will be easy to build and manage
- Installing Drupal and setting it up to work reliably and securely
- Quickly finding the Drupal tools and features you're looking for
- Mastering an easy 3-step workflow for creating new content
- Delivering more interesting content with fields and new content types
- Creating intuitive site structures and user navigation
- Adding powerful site features with just a few clicks
- Completely redesigning your site in minutes with Themes
- Adding site search, registration, and more
- Presenting content in tables, lists, grids, or photo galleries
- Creating advanced layouts and 2- or 3-column designs
- Controlling what users on your site can see and do
- Preparing your site for launch
- Administering and updating a live site efficiently and safely
"Drupal 7 Explained "requires absolutely no experience with Drupal, content management, website construction,
programming, scripting, or even HTML. Stephen Burge has taught thousands of beginners--and thousands more
who've experimented with Drupal but haven't mastered it yet. Nobody knows more about guiding Drupal users up the
learning curve--from confusion to results!

Genres: Computer Science, Nonfiction

481 pages, ebook

First published December 27, 2012

About the author

Steve Burge is from Portsmouth in southern England and now lives in Atlanta in the US.

Between leaving England and arriving in the US, there were a few stops in between, including Wales, Mexico, Japan and Australia. Steve paid for his travels by working as a teacher and a web designer.

Steve now combines teaching and web design by running OSTraining.com which teaches people how to build websites. OSTraining clients include Apple, Pfizer and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Education and Commerce.

Steve has published two books: Joomla Explained and Drupal 7 Explained. More are coming including Joomla 3 Explained, Drupal 8 Explained and WordPress Explained.

Reviews

[Ariadna73 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because it is not the typical heavy manual that you have to read from cover to cover after pleading to the gods that they send you the good luck of finding whatever you need.
I think it had wonderful advice, a great explanation of the development lifecycle, and a terrific index that made really easy finding an answer to any question you had. I actually followed some of their step-by-step guides in my site, and was able to create a beautiful slideshow..
Here is the cover and editorial information of the book I read:

And here is a small example of how the author created mini-tutorials with detailed step-by-step information on how to accomplish different things with the tool:

Here is the Drupal workflow, which I found really helpful to put my thoughts in order:

This is another example of the same strategy: here the author explains how to maintain the modules and themes up to date:

And here are the last few words of the book. So cute and close to your heart! the author makes you feel hopeful that you are now initiated in a fun and potentially productive path:

I hope you like this entry. If you feel like viewing more of the books I read, you are welcome to visit my blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had never used Drupal before I read this book but by the time I finished it I felt like I knew Drupal Core forward and backward. Early into the book I went rouge and started working on my own site instead of the Drupalville site, but the descriptions of the exercises were so clear that that wasn't an issue. I would have given the book five stars if it wasn't for all the typos. I did find a list online of all the typos in the book and what it should say instead, so that helped a little. But if the publisher had just had someone go through the book once, a lot of the mistakes could have been caught. Also, since the book's publication Drupal Gardens won't allow you to download modules so if you are using Drupal Gardens, you won't have access to every module the author discuss. However if you put your site on another server than it shouldn't be an issue.

[wealthychef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good way to learn Drupal, if you have the patience for the detailed approach. By the end I felt I had a firm grasp of drupal setup and administration basics. Ready to move on to more challenging ideas.

[Lochana Menikarachchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

An acceptable introduction to drupal 7.

[Kabitano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Drupal 7 Explained: Your Step-By-Step Guide is the best book for beginners of drupal 7