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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 ® 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. $29.99 US / $35.99 CN / £21.99 UK ISBN 978-0-470-55611-5 Internet/Web Design Go to Dummies.com® for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop! Drop in and check out Drupal, the free, flexible framework for building and managing Web sites Even if you’ve never built a Web site and the only thing you’ve programmed is your DVR, you really can set up a site with Drupal. This book shows you how to find and install the right version of Drupal, how to plan your site, and how 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 Drupal ® Beighley spine=.7680” spine=.7680” Start with FREE Cheat Sheets Cheat Sheets include • Checklists • Charts • Common Instructions • And Other Good Stuff! Get Smart at Dummies.com Dummies.com makes your life easier with 1,000s of answers on everything from removing wallpaper to using the latest version of Windows. Check out our • Videos • Illustrated Articles • Step-by-Step Instructions Plus, each month you can win valuable prizes by entering our Dummies.com sweepstakes. * Want a weekly dose of Dummies? Sign up for Newsletters on • Digital Photography • Microsoft Windows & Office • Personal Finance & Investing • Health & Wellness • Computing, iPods & Cell Phones • eBay • Internet • Food, Home & Garden Find out “HOW” at Dummies.com *Sweepstakes not currently available in all countries; visit Dummies.com for official rules. Get More and Do More at Dummies.com® To access the Cheat Sheet created specifically for this book, go to www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/drupal by Lynn Beighley Drupal FOR DUMmIES ‰ Drupal For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941353 ISBN: 978-0-470-55611-5 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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- ing. I also thank the whole crew at Wiley who helped with this edition. Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments at http://dummies.custhelp.com. For other comments, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, out- side the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002. Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development Project Editor: Pat O’Brien Acquisitions Editor: Kyle Looper Copy Editor: Debbye Butler Technical Editor: Todd Kelsey Editorial Manager: Kevin Kirschner Media Development Project Manager: Laura Moss-Hollister Media Development Assistant Project Manager: Jenny Swisher Media Development Associate Producers: Josh Frank, Marilyn Hummel, Douglas Kuhn, and Shawn Patrick Editorial Assistant: Amanda Graham Sr. Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case Cartoons: Rich Tennant (www.the5thwave.com) Composition Services Project Coordinator: Patrick Redmond Layout and Graphics: Ashley Chamberlain, Joyce Haughey, Melissa K.Jester Proofreaders: Christopher M. Jones, Jessica Kramer Indexer: Potomac Indexing, LLC Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies Richard Swadley, Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher Mary Bednarek, Executive Acquisitions Director Mary C. Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Composition Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services 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

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