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Drupal offers unparalleled flexibility for content-managed Web sites, but most Drupal books are written for expert developers. Drupal For Dummies shows you the fast, fun and easy way to get going with Drupal, set up a site, apply templates, use modules, and more, even if you have no programming experience.

Drupal For Dummies shows you how to take advantage of everything in Drupal that is ready to use, demystifying what may appear to be a complex set of tools.

  • Drupal is a free, open source modular framework and content management system designed for content-managed Web sites
  • Learn how to download Drupal, install the LAMP stack, and set up a site; no programming experience required
  • Organize and create your site's content; apply templates, and get your first site up and running
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Drupal For Dummies is designed to help the non-programmer who simply wants to turbocharge a blog or is responsible for administering a content-managed site.

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Drop in and check out Drupal, the free, flexible framework for building and managing Web sites

Even if you've never built a Web site and the only thing you've programmed is your DVR, you really can set up a site with Drupal. This book shows you how to find and install the right version of Drupal, how to plan your site, and how to manage it. You can even beef it up with data from other sites, a storefront, an image gallery, and much more!

  • Start here ? find the free software and get simple solutions on things like setting up a database and installing Drupal on a Web host

    • Who's in charge ? manage an administrator account, establish rules, and control site users

      • What's on your site ? create, manage, and edit your content, and decide whether to allow comments

        • Where's your region? ? work with themes and regions and manage menus

          • Open forum ? create a site with a blog and forum and set up appropriate security

            • Stay current ? keep Drupal up to date, monitor activity on your site, and locate new modules and themes to use

              • Cover your bases ? maintain your database, back it up, and know how to restore it

                • Move up ? see how Drupal can build a robust site that interacts with other sites and how to set up an online store

                  Open the book and find:

                  • What Drupal is and what it's not

                    • Tools you need to install Drupal

                      • How to decide on rules and settings for your site

                        • Tips for telling your story quickly

                          • Advice on choosing, changing, and configuring themes

                            • All about modules

                              • How to use reports

                                • Secrets of good site security

About the Author

Lynn Beighley is a Web designer, Web developer, and the author of several books and training courses. She creates Web applications of every imaginable type and has used Drupal for several years, valuing its capacity for quickly publishing robust, manageable, multi-user sites.

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AskAlthea
5.0 out of 5 stars Gets you turbocharged on the Drupal road
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2014
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As Drupal newbies, we needed a place to start that would be as painless as possible. Let's face it, as a mature, open source CMS solution it's very deep. As tech professionals we have a lot of familiarity with Adobe web dev products but zero with Drupal, until now.

We wanted to explore Drupal because it is so mature, scalable and, well, amazingly cool. This book is a great starting place for everyone. It's an easy read and we read it cover to cover first before installing and developing a Drupal e-commerce website. The authors are completely up front about how deep Drupal is and that their book barely scratches the surface. Even so...

Drupal for Dummies is the recipe book to get started SUCCESSFULLY and actually build a functioning Drupal 7.xx website. Along with all of the steps in this book, the authors point the user to extraordinarily useful resources on the web. These include the complete and correct installation of everything needed to run and develop with Drupal, find snap in modules and well-developed themes, use Drupal specific web hosting providers or how to upload a Drupal website to the web hosting company of your choice, among hundreds of others correct and useful Drupal tips.

We followed the book and used Acquia DAMP to install without a hitch. Read the book and you'll understand how installation is the hardest part of Drupal; these authors know their stuff. After following this book, we are now confident enough to explore as much of Drupal as possible. Oh, yah, the nifty tips on how to preserve databases or experiment with themes before you blow up Drupal are worth their weight in gold.

Yah, ok, the great tips are basic. But, the height of the pinnacle is dependent on the width of the base. Gotta learn to walk before you run. These 'basic' tips include things like terminology (Drupal has its own),theme customization, building blocks, user management, building a storefront and more.

Once anyone works through this book and sits in front of a completed Drupal website, it's time to go out into the big world wide web and explore Drupal to its fullest. Join the Drupal communities and contribute to this amazing open source content management system. Admittedly, we won't be upgrading to Adobe's cloud and endless fee solution after this experience. Drupal for Dummies and Drupal totally rock!

Thank you Lynn & Seamus for putting together this book.
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Scratch Duffer
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots 'o web literacy required
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2010
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Well, maybe no coding is required, but to actually get a Drupal site up and running requires a healthy amount of web literacy. Check out the table of contents. I'm an experienced web applications developer and realized right away that installing Drupal successfully was not for the faint of heart. Do you know the distinction between a local machine and a remote host? Have you ever edited an Apache configuration file? Do you have any idea of what an Apache web server is?

The author guides you down the installation of Drupal on a very particular web provider at a particular point in time and took screen shots. She tells you that other installs will be different and will require some know how and maybe a call to the help desk. Well duh? If you do not know what the words mean in her book then you will be spending a lot of time reading FAQ's and asking for help. Installing the database? Setting up users and access rights? That sounds pretty advanced to me!

Still - I gave it 4 stars because the book is a good overview and quick start for those with enough web savvy to conceptually understand what is going on. She also has lots of good tips for dealing with spam and user authentication. I'm not returning the book!
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Ian R. Bruce
3.0 out of 5 stars Helpful... sometimes.
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015
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You know you're in trouble when a guide like this spends several pages discussing the difficulties and complexities of actually installing the software. Drupal is notoriously difficult to work with, and for a newbie like me it was a challenge. It worked, but wasn't easy and the book was only partially useful.

When I tried to also install a Drupal theme I bought, the book broke down completely. I ended up finding support elsewhere. The Dummies guides try to give a simple, non-technical introduction, but the reality is Drupal needs much more.
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Carissa Patchen
2.0 out of 5 stars Product condition was as expected.
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2015
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This book came out in 2011 (2nd edition) and it's now 2016. Ignoring for a moment that Drupal 8 has been released and this book is about Drupal 7, if you are a "Dummy" then don't buy this book. Clearly many things have changed in Drupal 7 since this book was released. So it's quite easy to get confused. Also, there is a lot of repetition. This book is about 150 pages and need only be 100 pages or 75 pages. I don't believe a new user to Drupal 7 is going to get much value from this book.
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M Gagnon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2019
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This book was a great read. Very useful.
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Christophe Perrier-Cornet
2.0 out of 5 stars deception...
Reviewed in France on August 7, 2013
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Le titre est trompeur et ne permet pas de faire un vrai site web drupal....très très basique et se rapproche plus d'une démo qu'un guide....a éviter!
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Katie Beeston
5.0 out of 5 stars easiest book i know
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2013
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my partner uses this book all the time, he has learnt so much and is now trying to re-train into web design
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alidopa
1.0 out of 5 stars trop simple
Reviewed in France on June 27, 2017
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trop simple, ce livre n'est pas vraiment utile. Il donne les bases les plus basiques pour un outil très puissante...
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Maria Filippakopoulou
4.0 out of 5 stars Seen from a total beginner
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2014
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I was fairly new to Drupal (able to upload stories and adding photos, if that) and needed a crash course urgently as I was in charge of redesigning our website at work. I learnt a lot from this book and understood the basic principles and features of Drupal. I've also had my confidence increased as a result although I'm still not good at coding (which, to be honest, you really need to have to be able to adapt any drupal theme and module to your own taste and needs). However, I still use the book for reference as I carry on tweaking our website. Given the scores of online information out these about drupal, a beginner needs that foundational understanding of the system to be able to move on gradually into more detailed knowledge. Quite chaffed about it.
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