April 2012
Beginner
494 pages
13h 30m
English
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Preface
Audience
Who is this book written for?
If your lead developer can’t seem to shut up about this weird “Drupal” thing, and you want to figure out what on earth she’s talking about, this book is for you.
If your boss has approached you and said, “We need to build a site that has X, and fast!” and “X” is a photo gallery, a product reviews section, an ecommerce store, or any of the other projects covered herein, this book is for you.
If you know your way around Drupal, but have found yourself paralyzed by the sheer volume of contributed modules, and need help figuring out which ones are worth looking at, this book is for you.
If you consider yourself well versed in Drupal already, but want to broaden your horizons by learning about some useful modules that you may not have encountered yet, and learn best practices for building powerful Drupal websites, this book is for you.
If you’ve been building Drupal sites for a while in Drupal 6, but are new to Drupal 7 and want to find out what’s new and different, this book is for you.
If you’re completely new to creating websites and installing web-based scripts, this book probably isn’t for you, yet. We assume that goofy acronyms like PHP, FTP, URL, ZIP, and HTML are in your working vocabulary. Likewise, if you’re interested in hardcore, nitty-gritty details about Drupal’s API functions, this book isn’t for you: our focus here is on pointy-clicky stuff: combining existing modules to build out functionality, rather than creating new ones.
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