Drupal For Dummies E-Book

Lynn Beighley

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Seitenzahl: 328

Beschreibung

Learn to set up, manage, and administer a Drupal web site Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed web sites, and Drupal 7 is the easiest version to use yet. This new edition teaches you the fast, fun, and easy way to get started with Drupal. Even if you have no Drupal experience, you'll quickly learn how to download and install Drupal, set up your first content-managed site, apply templates, use modules, and more. Drupal gurus Lynn Beighley and Seamus Bellamy show you how to take advantage of what Drupal has to offer, make the most of the new features in Drupal 7, and demystify perplexing Drupal issues. * Drupal is a free, open source modular framework and content management system designed for content-managed web sites * Shows you how to download Drupal; no programming experience required * Looks at Drupal 7 and explains new features that make it is easier to use than previous iterations of Drupal for a creating a blog, content site, or eBusiness site * Explains how to organize and create your site's content, apply templates, and get your first site up and running * Details the ways to use modules and third-party templates Whether you're looking to implement a flexible content management system, turbocharge a blog with photo galleries, or administer a third-party Drupal site, this book gets you off to a running start!

Leseprobe

Drupal For Dummies®

Visit www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/drupalw to view this book's cheat sheet.

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You Don’t Need to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started with Drupal

Part II: Your First Drupal Site

Part III: Bending Drupal to Your Will

Part IV: Taking Drupal to the Next Level

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Drupal

Chapter 1: The Big Picture

What Drupal Is

Free

Flexible

Customizable

A Content Management System

What Drupal Isn’t

What Drupal Can Do for Your Site

Polls

Blogs

Contact forms

Forums

Examples of Drupal Sites

Drupal.org

Zappos.com

Drupalmuseum.com and Drupalsites.net

Chapter 2: Getting and Installing Drupal

Deciding Where Your Site Will Live

Getting on the web

Web hosting companies

Installing on a web host with Softaculous

Obtaining Drupal

Downloading the package

Uploading the package

Extracting Drupal

Setting Up a Database

What a database is and why you need one

Creating a database for Drupal

Installing Drupal on a Web Host

Browsing to your Drupal site

Running the setup

Installing Drupal on a Local Machine

What you need

Getting Apache, MySQL, and PHP

Finishing installation on a local machine

Running the installation

Chapter 3: Essential Administration

Setting a Strategy for Your Drupal Site

Working With Your Account

Logging in and logging out

Editing your account

Embracing Drupal Terminology

Creating Content for Your Site

Creating an article

Changing the default theme

Configuring Your Site

Perusing the Configuration menu

Setting your site information

Chapter 4: Tackling User Management

Managing Your Administrator Account

Editing administrator settings

Maintaining security

Allowing Public Registrations

Sensible registration guidelines

User e-mail settings

Assigning user permissions

Adding, Editing, and Deleting Users

Adding users

Editing user information

Canceling user accounts

Understanding User Roles

Creating roles

Assigning roles to users

Part II: Your First Drupal Site

Chapter 5: Creating Content: Basic Pages and Articles

Understanding Drupal Nodes

Making basic pages

Accessing content creation

Adding a page

Editing a basic page

Deleting a basic page

Accessing your basic page

Writing an Article

Editing and deleting articles

Ordering your content

Managing article length

Setting Menu Options for a Basic Page

Giving your node a menu link title

Choosing a parent item

Setting the link weight

Chapter 6: Managing Your Content

Finding the Settings

Handling HTML Content

Choosing a Text format

Using filtered HTML

Using full HTML

Adding Menu Settings

Controlling Revision Information

Managing Comment Settings

Considerations of allowing comments

Closing comments

Hiding comments

Changing Authoring Information

Publishing Options

Publishing

Promoting to front page

Making content sticky in lists

Previewing your content

Adding Images

Chapter 7: Changing Themes

Changing Themes

Enabling a theme

Setting an administration theme

Configuring Themes

Global theme settings

Toggle display settings

Logo image settings

Shortcut icon settings

Specific theme settings

Chapter 8: Building Blocks and Managing Menus

Understanding Blocks, Regions, and Menus

Using Regions

Understanding how themes work with regions

Exploring the regions

Configuring regions

Administering Blocks

Using the built-in blocks

Creating custom blocks

Editing and deleting custom blocks

Changing block visibility settings

Editing pre-built blocks

Managing Menus

Adding an item to a menu

Editing and deleting links

Adding a menu

Chapter 9: Using Modules to Create a Site with a Blog and Forum

Understanding Modules

Understanding the required modules

Looking at the optional modules

Setting Up Your Blog

Enabling the Blog module

Creating your first blog entry

Changing blog-entry settings

Configuring your blog

Adding more blog entries

Editing and deleting blog entries

Creating multiple blogs

Setting Up a Forum

Enabling the Forum module

Organizing the Forum module

Configuring your Forum module

Viewing your forums

Changing forum topics settings

Managing forum permissions

Managing the Comments Module

Moderating comments

Approving or deleting comments

Part III: Bending Drupal to Your Will

Chapter 10: Advanced Administration

Adding New Themes and Modules

Locating themes and modules

Copying module or theme URLs

Automatically installing modules and themes

Enabling themes and modules

Manually installing themes and modules

Disabling themes and modules

Keeping Drupal, Modules, and Themes Up to Date

Knowing when you need to update

Finding available updates

Protecting your database

Updating themes and modules

Running update.php

Updating your Drupal software

Configuring Your Site

Triggering actions

Setting an administration theme

Creating clean URLs

Controlling Page Not Found errors

Chapter 11: Customizing Themes

Adding New Themes

Finding new themes

Installing themes

Dissecting a Theme

Theme file types

Theme code files

Theme image files

Customizing Themes by Hand

Installing Modified Themes

Changing your theme’s appearance

Changing colors

Understanding the style.css file

Using graphics

Part IV: Taking Drupal to the Next Level

Chapter 12: Creating a Robust Website

Planning Your Drupal Site

Getting a clear picture of your site

Knowing your audience

Choosing your features

Additional Modules to Install

OpenID module

Poll module

Search module

Adding a Contact Form

Enhancing User Profiles

Creating a personal information form

Enabling registered users to view profiles

Enhancing profiles with user images and signatures

Chapter 13: Using Drupal Gardens

Getting a Drupal Gardens Account

Creating a free site

Upgrading your account

Getting your own domain name

Using Theme Builder

Understanding features

Using pages and block

Controlling the site structure

Managing Users

Chapter 14: Interacting with Other Sites

Working with Activity Stream

Installing Activity Stream

Installing additional modules

Enabling Activity Stream modules

Pulling in social media

Posting YouTube Videos

Sharing Content with RSS

Finding feeds with Google Reader

Using the Aggregator module

Creating a feed for your site

Chapter 15: Building a Storefront

Understanding Storefronts

Getting Started with Ubercart

Getting Ubercart and additional modules

Installing Ubercart and additional modules

Enabling the basic Ubercart installation

Creating Your First Storefront

Creating product listings

Testing the ordering process

Managing orders

Configuring Your Storefront

Adding a shopping cart block

Using the Configuration settings

Enhancing Product Listings

Using images

Adding a catalog

Getting Paid

Choosing a credit card service

Setting up Ubercart to accept credit card payments

Turning on payment

Setting up a Google Checkout account

Enhancing Your Store

Using the fulfillment modules

Taxing your customers

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 16: Ten Must-Have Drupal Modules and Themes

CAPTCHA Module

TinyMCE – WYSIWYG HTML Editor Module

Mollom Module

Printer, E-mail, and PDF Versions Module

Site Map Module

BlogBuzz II Theme

Jackson Theme

BlueMasters Theme

Zen Theme

Marinelli Theme

Chapter 17: Ten Places to Help You Do More with Drupal

Drupal.org Forum

Twitter

Facebook

Learn By The Drop

GotDrupal.com

Drupal.org Mailing Lists

Drupal.org Themes

Drupal2U.com

Drupal.org User Groups

Meetup.com

Cheat Sheet

Drupal® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

by Lynn Beighley and Seamus Bellamy

Drupal® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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About the Authors

Lynn Beighley has been a computer book author for a very long time, and this is her twelfth book. She’s written about SQL, PHP, Flash, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver, and finds that they all have connections to Drupal. In fact, it’s like “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” — she thinks maybe everything is connected to Drupal. Or perhaps Drupal is connected to everything. Either way, she loves it.

Lynn lives in a sleepy New Jersey town, and doesn’t know anyone named Tony. She shares her slightly off-kilter 1920s home with her husband, Drew, and an 80-pound lap dog named Wroxton.

Seamus Bellamy has written only one other computer book so far — Joomla! For Dummies — and feels humbled in the face of his coauthor’s massive body of work. During the time that Seamus should have been writing books, he instead frittered away his days pursuing a number of tangents — working in the security intelligence community, as a pub musician, and as a music and tech journalist. Most recently, his work can be found on a regular basis in Mac|Life Magazine, and Maximum PC, as well as online.

Seamus currently lives in Victoria, Canada. Like Lynn, Seamus knows no one named Tony. That said, during the late 1990s he did briefly share a house in Halifax with a fiddler named Anthony who ate nothing but fish sticks and ice cream for close to a year. That, however, is a story for another day.

Dedication

Lynn: For Drew.

Seamus: For my father, Jack. I wish you could have lived long enough to see me make a living doing what I love.

Authors’ Acknowledgments

We’d like to thank Kyle Looper for giving us the opportunity to write a For Dummies book on such a great topic, and Jean Nelson for shepherding us through the process. We also thank the whole crew at Wiley who helped with this edition.

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Introduction

Welcome to the second edition of Drupal For Dummies, a book written especially for people who want to have their own websites but haven’t a clue about how to start or where to begin.

Are you frustrated because the kid next door has five websites to your none? Are you tired of trying to find someone to build your site for you for free? Do you hear stories about how much a website has picked up your dentist’s business? You need Drupal!

Or maybe you already have a website, but you have one problem: The guy who built it isn’t around to help when things break. And he built it in Javanese HRH or some other gibberish you can’t even remember the name of, much less decipher. Makes you want to scream.

Either way, you’ve found the right book. Help is here, within these humble pages.