July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1146 pages
32h 29m
English
book
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
by Greg Stout, Michelle Lauer, Mike Ryan, Stéphane Corlosquet, Nathaniel Catchpole, Robin Monks, Dan Hakimzadeh, Jacine Luisi, Kasey Qynn Dolin, George Cassie, Albert Albala, Bojhan Somers, Dmitri Gaskin, Stefan Freudenberg, Jake Strawn, Allie Micka, Florian Lorétan, Sam Boyer, Forest Mars, Mike Gifford, Susan Stewart, Peter Wolanin, Roy Scholten, Robert Douglass, Greg Anderson, Brian Travis, Kay VanValkenburgh, Ryan Szrama, Amye Scavarda, Benjamin Melançon, Ed Carlevale, Dani Nordin, Claudina Sarahe, Károly Négyesi
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Preface: Why Drupal?
Drupal is a great content management system, a powerful framework for web applications, and a cutting edge social publishing platform. Above all, Drupal is more than software—it is a vibrant community of developers, designers, project managers, business innovators, technology strategists, user experience professionals, standards and accessibility advocates, and people who just mess around with stuff until they figure it out.
Figure 1. Drupal as the intersection of web content management system, application framework, and social and semantic publishing platform—encompassed by a diverse community
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