Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right

by Victor Kane

This book is a step-by-step guide and a hands-on co-piloted experience for those trying to make Drupal powered websites work for them, and for their clients. Much more than a "tutorial", what is needed is a nuts-and-bolts living mentor and guide which really shows the reader how to do the things really required for bringing it all together in a site which works. This will be the only book covering all the difficult components of views, panels, themes, content creation, etc. The book will
* How to upgrade your hopelessly outdated and obsolete-software dependent site and bring it into the Drupal mainstream and future
* How to become a great Drupal themer and make "non-Drupal" looking sites
* How to really customize Drupal for your real needs
* How to start using best practices in Drupal web application development
* How to work like the pro Drupal shops and be ready for big projects - and small ones
* Learn by example (code samples, theme samples, videos) at every step

480 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2009

Reviews

[Darrell Ulm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Drupal book for it's time, but believe it is Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 specific.
Still has some good tips for setup.

[Charlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very, very good book for agile process leveraging Drupal's out-of-box capabilities to build powerful, customizable sites quickly. A lot of the information is dated (such as steps for upgrading to Drupal 6) or applies to specific tools you may or may not use, but it's a very helpful overview of process with an introduction to theming, Jquery, etc. It really does cover all the bases for somebody who wants to take an agile approach using Drupal.

[Daun Hall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhat difficult read but very informative book about leveraging the CMS power of Drupal. What more can I say, Drupal rocks.