Drupal for Dummies (ISBN - 0470556110)

387 Pages·2021·31.55 MB·English

Lynn Beighley

Learn to:
• Download and install Drupal and
the LAMP stack

• Work with ready-to-use modules
and templates

• Administer Web sites large and small

• Easily make changes across an
entire site

Drupal

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Making Everything Easier!™

Open the book and find:

• What Drupal is and what it’s not

• Tools you need to install Drupal

• How to decide on rules and
settings for your site

• Tips for telling your story quickly

• Advice on choosing, changing,
and configuring themes

• All about modules

• How to use reports

• Secrets of good site security

Lynn Beighley is a Web designer, Web developer, and the author of
several books and training courses. She creates Web applications of
every imaginable type and has used Drupal for several years, valuing
its capacity for quickly publishing robust, manageable, multi-user sites.

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to manage it. You can even beef it up with data from other
sites, a storefront, an image gallery, and much more!

• Start here — find the free software and get simple solutions on
things like setting up a database and installing Drupal on a
Web host

• Who’s in charge — manage an administrator account, establish
rules, and control site users

• What’s on your site — create, manage, and edit your content,
and decide whether to allow comments

• Where’s your region? — work with themes and regions and
manage menus

• Open forum — create a site with a blog and forum and set up
appropriate security

• Stay current — keep Drupal up to date, monitor activity on your
site, and locate new modules and themes to use

• Cover your bases — maintain your database, back it up, and
know how to restore it

• Move up — see how Drupal can build a robust site that interacts
with other sites and how to set up an online store

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About the Author

Lynn Beighley has been a computer book author for a very long time, and
this is her tenth book. She’s written about SQL, PHP, Flash, Photoshop, and
Dreamweaver, and finds that they all have connections to Drupal. In fact, like
Kevin Bacon, she thinks maybe everything is connected to Drupal. Or per-
haps Drupal is connected to everything. Either way, she loves it.

Lynn lives in a sleepy New Jersey town, and doesn’t know anyone named
Tony. She shares her slightly off-kilter 1920’s home with her husband, Drew,
and an 80-pound lap dog named Wroxton.

Dedication

To Drew.

Author’s Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank Kyle Looper for giving me the opportunity to write a
Dummies book on such a great topic, and Pat O’Brien for shepherding me
through the process. Thanks also to Debbye Butler for her superb copy edit-
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Contents at a Glance

Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Getting Started with Drupal ............................... 7

Chapter 1: The Big Picture................................................................................................9
Chapter 2: Getting and Installing Drupal ......................................................................21
Chapter 3: Essential Administration..............................................................................45
Chapter 4: Tackling User Management .........................................................................57
Part II: Your First Drupal Site..................................... 77

Chapter 5: Creating Content: Pages and Stories..........................................................79
Chapter 6: Managing Your Content ...............................................................................97
Chapter 7: Changing Themes .......................................................................................117
Chapter 8: Building Blocks and Managing Menus .....................................................127
Chapter 9: Using Modules: Create a Site with a Blog and Forum ............................151
Part III: Bending Drupal at Your Will........................ 183

Chapter 10: Advanced Administration........................................................................185
Chapter 11: Customizing Themes................................................................................207
Part IV: Taking Drupal to the Next Level.................... 227

Chapter 12: Creating a Robust Web Site.....................................................................229
Chapter 13: Developing an Image Gallery...................................................................251
Chapter 14: Interacting with Other Sites ....................................................................273
Chapter 15: Building a Storefront ................................................................................295
Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................... 321

Chapter 16: Ten Must-Have Drupal Modules .............................................................323
Chapter 17: Ten Places to Help You Do More with Drupal ......................................339
Index ...................................................................... 349