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Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 : Build Your Own Professional Blog, Forum, Portal Or Community Website With Drupal 6.
Title:
Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 : Build Your Own Professional Blog, Forum, Portal Or Community Website With Drupal 6.
Author:
Mercer, David.
ISBN:
9781847192981
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Contents:
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 -- Table of Contents -- Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- What You Need for This Book -- Who is This Book for -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Drupal -- Drupal - An Overview -- How Drupal Came to Be -- What Drupal Has to Offer -- Uses of Drupal -- Building a Drupal Site -- Planning Your Site -- Analyzing the Proposed Solution -- Feasibility -- Phone a Friend -- Critical versus Desirable Criteria -- The Drupal Community -- Documentation -- Download -- Support -- Forum -- Contribute -- Contact -- The Drupal License -- Summary -- 2. Setting Up The Development Environment -- The Drupal Environment -- Obtaining and Installing PHP, Apache, and MySQL -- Obtaining and Installing Drupal -- Troubleshooting Common Problems -- Drupal's Post-Installation Status -- Administrator's Overview -- Creating a Basic Drupal Page -- Summary -- 3. Basic Functionality -- Adding Modules -- Third-Party Modules -- Downloading Modules -- Installing Modules -- Configuring Modules -- Forum -- Comments -- Search -- Working with Blocks -- Adding Blocks -- Configuring Blocks -- Menus, Primary and Secondary Links -- Summary -- 4. Site Configuration -- Before We Start -- Clean URLs -- Error Reporting -- File System and File Uploads -- Logging and Reports -- Site Information -- Site Maintenance -- Summary -- 5. Access Control -- Planning an Access Policy -- Roles -- Permissions -- Users -- Administering Users -- User Settings -- Access Rules -- Summary -- 6. Basic Content -- Content Overview -- Content Types -- Working with Content -- Working with Content Types -- Creating Content -- Administering Content -- Content-Related Modules -- Aggregator -- Book.

Summary -- 7. Advanced Content -- Taxonomy -- What and Why? -- Implementing Controlled Taxonomies in Drupal -- Introduction to Vocabularies -- Dealing with Terms -- Posting Content with Categories Enabled -- Hierarchies -- Content Structure -- Implementing Thesuari in Drupal (Tags) -- Content Construction Kit (CCK) -- Installing CCK -- Working with CCK -- Adding Fields -- Adding Groups -- Displaying Fields -- Export & Import -- Adding Contributed Fields -- HTML, PHP, and Content Posting -- Input Formats and Filters -- HTML -- Creating a Feature-Rich Page -- Posting a Feature-Rich Page -- Summary -- 8. Drupal's Interface -- Planning a Web-Based Interface -- Visual Design -- Language -- Images -- CSS -- Themes -- Theme Anatomy -- Choosing a Base Theme -- Configuring Themes -- Customizing Themes -- Images -- Colors -- Page Modifications -- Summary -- 9. Advanced Features and Modifications -- OpenID -- Actions and Triggers -- Language Support -- Localization -- Content Translation -- Performance -- Caching -- Throttling -- Dynamic JavaScript Features -- jQuery -- jQuery Basics -- jQuery in Action -- Scrolling News Ticker -- Obtaining the Ticker -- Adding the Content -- Summary -- 10. Managing Your Website -- Backups -- phpMyAdmin -- The mysqldump Utility -- Cron and Scheduled Tasks -- The Crontab -- Windows Scheduled Tasks -- Website Activities -- Path and Pathauto -- Uninstalling Modules -- Maintaining Users -- Search Engine Optimization and Website Promotion -- Upgrades -- Upgrading Drupal -- Upgrading Modules -- Summary -- A. Deployment -- Getting Ready to Deploy -- Site Checklist -- Make Sure the Host is Ready -- Get the Files Ready -- Get the Database Ready -- Transfer the Files -- Setting Up the Site -- Set Up the Files -- Set Up the Database -- Configure the Site -- Access Problem? -- Testing -- Summary -- Index.
Abstract:
Build your own professional blog, forum, portal or community website with Drupal 6.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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