Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6: Build your own professional blog

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Book Description

Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for building blogs and other websites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet), Hillary Clinton, and many others utilize Drupal to fulfil their online requirements.

Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!

This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.

Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.

What you will learn from this book?

* Plan and consider various design aspects of your site
* Install, set up, and configure a Drupal development machine
* Find your way around the vast array of Drupal settings with ease
* Add and work with modules to enhance your websiteâ€™s functionality
* Control and manage your siteâ€™s content
* Deal with security issues, users, and access control
* Implement a customized interface for your website
* Add powerful new features and learn advanced techniques
* Deploy, manage, and maintain your website

Product Details

* Paperback: 380 pages
* Publisher: Packt Publishing (April 4, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1847192971
* ISBN-13: 978-1847192974
* Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

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