Geller T. - Drupal 7. Visual Quickstart Guide [2011, PDF, ENG]

Chapter 1
Getting Drupal Up and Running......................................................1
Fulfilling Drupal’s Requirements .....................................................2
Downloading and Unpacking Drupal...............................................8
Creating the MySQL Database Using phpMyAdmin.......................14
Installing Drupal . ........................................................................17
Chapter 2
Establishing Your Drupal Site........................................................21
Using the New Administrative Interfaces in Drupal 7................... 22
Turning on Built-In Features.........................................................28
Giving Your Site Its Identity..........................................................29
Selecting a Visual Theme..............................................................33
Monitoring Your Drupal Site..........................................................40
Packaging Your Drupal Site...........................................................43
Chapter 3
Creating and Managing Content . .............................................. 51
Gaining More Control of Individual Nodes . ................................ 52
Creating Other Types of Content . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................... 61
Finding, Editing, and Deleting Content . . . . . ............................. 71
Chapter 4
Customizing Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................ 73
Defining Custom Types of Content . ........................................... 74
Putting Images and Styled Text in Content . . . . . . .................... 85
Chapter 5
Making Content Interactive . . . . . . . . . . . . .............................. . 95
Enabling Interactive Content Types . . . . . . . . . . . ......................96
Categorizing Content with Taxonomies . . . . . . . ...................... 104
Mastering Text Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........................110
Mastering Image Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......................... 117
Chapter 6
Improving Access to Content . . . . . . . . . . . ........... .................. 121
Making Content Searchable . .................................................... 122
Directing Traffic with Menus . .................................................... 128
Laying Out Your Site with Blocks . . . . ......................... . . . . . . ..140
Chapter 7
Wrangling Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................... . . . . 147
Managing User Accounts . . . . . . . ............................ . . . . . . ... .148
Controlling How Users Interact with Their Accounts . . . . . . . . ..156
Defining User Roles and Permissions . . . . . . . . . .......................163
Building and Protecting Your User Community . . . . .................. 171
Chapter 8
Customizing Drupal’s Look and Feel . .................. . . . . . . .........179
Creating a New Theme . ....................................................... ....180
Changing Theme Graphics and Typography with CSS . ..............184
Chapter 9
Extending Drupal with Modules . . . . . . . ............................ . . . 193
Using Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................ . . . 194
Modules: The Drupal 7 Challenge . . . ........................................202
Resources for Evaluating Modules . . . . . . . . . ........................ . 205
Appendix Getting (and Giving) Help ................ ......................211
Glossary Drupal Terms and Culture.........................................229
Index . ........................................ .............................................235