Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting

Writers: Konstantin , Emma
Published: 15 April 2009

The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates

Drupal is now the world's #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal's behaviors, themes, and templates.

Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal's powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You'll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums.

Prepare and organize content so it's easier to integrate into Drupal Web sites

Structure Drupal page templates that are easy to work with

Configure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to customize your site

Utilize Drupal's Starter Themes and themes converted from WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal 5.x

Maximize the power and usability of Drupal's content editing forms

Build usable community sites with user profiles, comments, and user-generated content

Use JavaScript to make your themes interactive and to enhance usability

Create powerful animations and AJAX callbacks with jQuery, Drupal's JavaScript library

About the Web Site

The accompanying site, frontenddrupal.com, contains all sample code and themes presented in this book.

Pages: 456
ISBN: 0137136692
ISBN-13: 978-0137136698
Language: English
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