Drupal 7 Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide

by Stephen Burge

Drupal 7 Explained is for people who want a fun and clear introduction to Drupal.Drupal 7 Explained requires absolutely no experience with Drupal, contentmanagement, site construction, programming, scripting, or even HTML. Discover what Drupal does and how it works; then install Drupal 7, master siteadministration, simplify site creation via workflows, createhighly-usable navigation, and much more. Quickly change sitedesigns with themes; find, choose, install, and use modules, includingViews; create advanced layouts with Display Suite Panels; customize user access; update and back up your sites; and build multiple site types,step by step! Please This is book is 100% aimed at Drupalbeginners. Drupal 7 Explained contains no code and that is absolutelydeliberate. If you want to learn how to create themes or code modules,there are other books for you.

Genres: Computer Science, Nonfiction

482 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 27, 2012

About the author

Steve Burge is from Portsmouth in southern England and now lives in Atlanta in the US.

Between leaving England and arriving in the US, there were a few stops in between, including Wales, Mexico, Japan and Australia. Steve paid for his travels by working as a teacher and a web designer.

Steve now combines teaching and web design by running OSTraining.com which teaches people how to build websites. OSTraining clients include Apple, Pfizer and the U.S. Departments of Energy, Education and Commerce.

Steve has published two books: Joomla Explained and Drupal 7 Explained. More are coming including Joomla 3 Explained, Drupal 8 Explained and WordPress Explained.

Reviews

[Ariadna73 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because it is not the typical heavy manual that you have to read from cover to cover after pleading to the gods that they send you the good luck of finding whatever you need.
I think it had wonderful advice, a great explanation of the development lifecycle, and a terrific index that made really easy finding an answer to any question you had. I actually followed some of their step-by-step guides in my site, and was able to create a beautiful slideshow..
Here is the cover and editorial information of the book I read:

And here is a small example of how the author created mini-tutorials with detailed step-by-step information on how to accomplish different things with the tool:

Here is the Drupal workflow, which I found really helpful to put my thoughts in order:

This is another example of the same strategy: here the author explains how to maintain the modules and themes up to date:

And here are the last few words of the book. So cute and close to your heart! the author makes you feel hopeful that you are now initiated in a fun and potentially productive path:

I hope you like this entry. If you feel like viewing more of the books I read, you are welcome to visit my blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had never used Drupal before I read this book but by the time I finished it I felt like I knew Drupal Core forward and backward. Early into the book I went rouge and started working on my own site instead of the Drupalville site, but the descriptions of the exercises were so clear that that wasn't an issue. I would have given the book five stars if it wasn't for all the typos. I did find a list online of all the typos in the book and what it should say instead, so that helped a little. But if the publisher had just had someone go through the book once, a lot of the mistakes could have been caught. Also, since the book's publication Drupal Gardens won't allow you to download modules so if you are using Drupal Gardens, you won't have access to every module the author discuss. However if you put your site on another server than it shouldn't be an issue.

[wealthychef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good way to learn Drupal, if you have the patience for the detailed approach. By the end I felt I had a firm grasp of drupal setup and administration basics. Ready to move on to more challenging ideas.

[Lochana Menikarachchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

An acceptable introduction to drupal 7.

[Kabitano · Rating 4 out of 5]

Drupal 7 Explained: Your Step-By-Step Guide is the best book for beginners of drupal 7