Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide
The Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide is a fully integrated tutorial on how to set up a community site with Drupal. The author of this book is Dorien Herremans, head of Sun Flare Ltd. You can get a copy as an ebook or at Amazon.
The entire book revolves around Drupalfun.com. During the tutorial, you will follow every step in detail, that we took to set up this social networking site.
Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide. 2nd Edition
With notes for Drupal 5
Now everyone can set up a social network with the free CMS Drupal
Author: Dorien Herremans
Ebook: pdf file of 172 pages
This second edition contains updated screenshots and action-lists matching the latest modules including Panels 3.
A large number of screenshots will guide the reader through the process of setting up a community site with the Drupal 5 or 6 framework. A number of popular topics, such as profiles, picture and video galleries, maps, messaging, groups, friends etc are discussed.
Drupal is one of the best content management systems (CMS) around. In fact, it has won the Best PHP 2009 Open Source CMS Award and is a 2009 Webware 100 winner for the third time in a row. For about 9 years now, Drupal has been providing users with one of the best and most versatile frameworks around. The reader will be guided through the different modules and configuration settings needed to build a solid community site. And we go even further, by looking at how to structure content and making a few €, $, ¥, ¢, £,... from your site. It is going to be an exploration of modules and their features.
The main strategy of this book it to use only out-of-the-box, user contributed modules. So anybody can make a great site. This well
thought strategy offers us the following advantages:
- Easy to update.
- Anyone can do it.
- Expansive: at any time, you can install a module safely, to allow additional functionality.
Every function will be explained using the fully integrated case study Drupalfun.
Anyone can build a social networking site with Drupal after reading this book.
Due to popular demand, the case study site of the ebook is now available for download here.