Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site

Finally, Drupal Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide from Planning to Finished Site   The open source content management system Drupal offers amazing flexibility, sophistication, and power. The catch? Many first-time users find it difficult to get started, and most Drupal books don’t help with the initial stages. Drupal™ User’s Guide is different: easy to use, fun to read, practical, and complete!   Long-time Drupal site developer Emma Jane Hogbin guides you through every step of building sites with Drupal, from installation and site planning through launching your first site. Drawing on her experience teaching thousands of beginners, she covers both Drupal and Web design tasks, showing exactly how they fit together.   Drupal™ User’s Guide shows how to use Drupal 7’s newest improvements to build more modern, manageable sites for any business or organization. Hogbin covers crucial topics other Drupal books ignore, including search engine optimization and accessibility.   Walk through installing Drupal on Mac OS X and Linux Web serversGet comfortable with Drupal 7’s new administrative interfaceBuild a basic site in minutesCreate S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) site goalsAudit your existing content so you can make the most of itExplore, choose, and customize Drupal themesWalk through building a community site with private discussion areaBuild a complete business association directory siteUse Web forms to capture and display any kind of contentTake advantage of Drupal’s powerful Views moduleChoose the right Drupal and third-party modules to build virtually any siteOptimize your site for Google and other search enginesUse advanced techniques to improve your visitors’ experiences   If you want to create great sites with Drupal–with no hassle, no confusion, and no degree in computer science–this is the book for you!