Drupal® -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: PLANNING YOUR WEBSITE -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO DRUPAL PLANNING -- Exploring Drupal -- Drupal Components -- From Data to Site Structure -- Drupal Terms -- Going Beyond HTML Sites -- A Website's Lifecycle -- Where Does Planning Fit In? -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2: MANAGING OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS -- Development Methodologies -- Waterfall Methodology -- Agile Methodologies -- RAD Methodology -- Spiral Methodology -- Phased Methodology -- Managing Integration -- Module Integration -- Systems Integration -- Determining Scope -- Avoiding Product Scope Creep -- Avoiding Project and Operational Scope Creep -- Budgeting for Costs -- Software -- Hardware -- Labor -- Materials -- Support -- Training -- Marketing -- Setting a Schedule -- Effects of a Development Methodology -- Ensuring Module Availability -- Considering Other Schedule Challenges -- Managing Resources -- Content -- People and Roles -- Ensuring Quality -- Satisfying Requirements -- Meeting Standards -- Using Best Practices -- Communicating with the Community -- Assessing Risks -- Getting Site Support -- Application Redesign -- Open Source Application Cancellation -- Ensuring Site Security -- Missing Delivery Dates -- Not Meeting Site Requirements -- Working with Vendors -- Identifying Future Maintenance Costs -- Facilitating Procurement -- What Gets Procured? -- Procurement Challenges -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3: CONDUCTING A NEEDS ANALYSIS -- Identifying Your Site's Purpose -- Marketing Brochure Sites -- E-Commerce Sites -- Learning Management Sites -- Collaborative Community Sites -- Media Sites -- Information Dissemination Sites -- Business Management Sites -- Online Applications -- Multipurpose Sites -- Doing It All with Drupal -- Considering Site Alternatives -- Conducting a Competitor Analysis -- Summary.

CHAPTER 4: COLLECTING REQUIREMENTS -- Where Are the Wireframes? -- Why Do Requirements Matter? -- How Much Detail Is Needed? -- Purpose -- Simple Use Cases -- Specifications -- Configuration -- Where to Start? -- Audience Analysis First -- Content Analysis First -- Design First -- Reality -- Audience Analysis -- Audience Segments -- Personas -- Process Analysis -- Types of Processes -- Life's Processes -- Business Processes -- Pre- and Post-Launch Processes -- Task Analysis -- Organizing Your Tasks -- From Task to Use Case -- Documenting Use Cases -- Content Analysis -- Making Content Decisions -- Identifying Types of Content -- Assigning Purpose to Content -- Determining User-Content Relationships -- Identifying Content Data -- Identifying Content Sources -- Reusing Content Data -- Categorizing Content -- Identifying Categories and Terms -- Establishing Content Relationships -- Determining the Need for Metadata -- Accommodating Multiple Languages -- Controlling Access to Content -- Collecting Content about Users -- Communication Analysis -- Contact Forms -- Commenting -- System Messages -- Subscriptions -- Email a Comment -- Chat -- Mashups -- SMS Communication -- Email Configuration -- Search/Browse Analysis -- Search versus Browse -- Filter versus Sort -- Drupal Search -- Solr Search -- Query Search -- Feature Analysis -- Creating a Feature List -- Associating Features with Entities -- Describing Features -- Integrating Features -- Role Analysis -- Role Strategies -- Levels of Permissions -- Performance Analysis -- Response Time -- Site Success or Popularity -- Usability -- Defects -- Security Analysis -- Site Access -- Server Access -- File Access -- Abuse -- Security Assurance -- Requirement Collection Strategies -- JAD Approach -- Assumption Approach -- Survey Approach -- Interview Approach -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5: CREATING A DESIGN PLAN.

Which Aspects Get Designed? -- Information Architecture -- Content Design -- Interaction Design -- Visual Design -- A Design Process -- Design Can Create Requirements -- Defining the Site Structure -- Common Structure Types -- Complex Sites -- User Structure -- Identifying Page Components -- Strategy Overview -- Identification Information -- Path Structures -- Navigation -- Content -- Features -- Component Access -- User Page Components -- Component Planning Strategies -- Creating Wireframes -- Theme Structures -- Content Area Layout -- Block Layouts -- Above the Fold -- Component Location -- Determining the Needed Detail for a Wireframe -- Designing Themes -- Creating a Style Guide -- Using Comps -- Incorporating Visual Elements -- Ensuring Visual Appeal -- Exploring the Theme -- Accessibility in Drupal -- Mobile Web -- Summary -- PART II: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING YOUR WEBSITE -- CHAPTER 6: PLANNING DEVELOPMENT -- Planning a Development Process -- Creating a Requirements Inventory -- Creating a Build Recipe -- Selecting a Drupal Profile -- Selecting Modules -- Planning Custom Modules -- Planning Theme Development -- Identifying Development Sequences -- Build Recipe -- Development Methodologies -- Project Team Availability -- Setting Up Your Environments -- Development vs. Production -- Servers and Hosting -- Version Control -- Access Control -- Documenting Your Development Plan -- Project Lifecycle Site -- Development Management Site -- Combining Documentation Strategies -- Building Your Site -- Testing Your Build -- Integration Testing -- Regression Testing -- Site Security Testing -- User Acceptance Testing -- Usability Testing -- Accessibility Testing -- Populating Your Site -- Separating Pre- and Post-Launch Data -- Using a Development vs. Staging Site -- Loading Content -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: COORDINATING IMPLEMENTATION -- Change Management.

Assessing Current and Future States -- Strategies for Managing Change -- Training -- Analyzing Your Needs -- Defining Your Objectives -- Designing a Solution -- Developing the Solution -- Delivering the Solution -- Marketing -- SEO Strategies -- Social Networking Strategies -- Traditional Strategies -- Configuring Your Site to Go Live -- Configuring Performance Settings -- Configuring Cron -- Configuring Log Reporting -- Checking Security -- Updating Theme Settings -- Disabling Modules -- Maintenance Plans -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8: SUSTAINING THE SITE -- Performing Routine Maintenance -- Monitoring-Related Tasks -- Backing Up Your Site -- Performing Planned Maintenance -- Planning the Update Process -- Scheduling Updates -- Updating Custom Modules -- Upgrading Your Site -- Site Management -- Managing Content -- Providing User Support -- Summary -- PART III: AN EXAMPLE SITE -- CHAPTER 9: AN EXAMPLE PLAN -- The Client -- The Purpose -- The Competition -- The Requirements -- Audience -- Use Cases -- Content -- User Profiles -- Communication -- Search/Browse -- Features -- Roles -- Performance -- Security -- The Design -- Site Structure -- Page Components -- Wireframes -- Style Guide and Theme -- Mobile Design -- Summary -- CHAPTER 10: EXAMPLE BUILD RECIPES -- The Requirements Inventory -- Pages -- Content Types and Fields -- Taxonomy Vocabularies -- Blocks -- The Module Recipe -- Comparing Drupal Core Modules -- Site Modules -- Drupal Distribution -- The Development Sequence -- The Environments -- The Implementation -- Expert Acquisition -- Training Plan -- Marketing Plan -- The Sustainment -- Maintenance Tasks -- Site Management Tasks -- Summary -- INDEX -- ADVERTISEMENT.