Beginning Drupal 7

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction to Drupal

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 1-8

3. Creating and Managing Content

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 9-23

4. Creating and Managing Users

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 25-35

5. Taxonomy

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 37-50

6. Creating Menus

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 51-58

7. Installing Themes

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 59-69

8. Drupal Blocks

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 71-81

9. Drupal Modules

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 83-95

10. Enabling Interactive Capabilities

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 97-117

11. Content Types

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 119-149

12. Views

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 151-173

13. Panels

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 175-196

14. Theming

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 197-214

15. Administering Your Drupal Site

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 215-227

16. Putting It All Together

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 229-237

17. Case Study

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 239-256

18. Back Matter

    Pages 257-316

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This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

• Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform.
• Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal.
• Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7.

• CMS
• Drupal
• Drupal 7
• Internet
• Open Source
• Web Content Management
• blog
• complexity
• content management
• content management system
• framework
• management
• organization
• themes
• time

Todd Tomlinson is a seasoned IT executive with 36 years of experience crossing multiple continents and technologies. He is a former Senior Director of EBusiness Strategy for Oracle Corporation, Senior Manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Practice Director for IBM, Vice President for Claremont Technology Group,co-Founder-Vice President-and CTO of Emerald Solutions, Senior Managing Partner for CNF Ventures, Vice President of the Drupal Consulting Practice at ServerLogic. Todd is currently the Senior Enterprise Drupal Architect for Unicon. Todd's passion for the web began in 1987 when he worked for the National Science Foundation at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh(Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) - and expanded when he helped Netscape Communication deploy their server platforms around the world in 1995-1996. He started using Drupal as a mechanism to teach advanced web design and development at the University of Phoenix, where he was the area chair and lead faculty member in the School of Business and Information Technology. He has helped many of the worlds largest organizations refocus their business around the web. He is the author of Pro Drupal 7 Development, Beginning Drupal 7, and Beginning Drupal 8 (Apress Publishing).

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