Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Step-by-step tutorial for beginning Drupal useres, the technology that is drastically reducing Web site development cost and time.

- Shows users how to implement Drupal Web site basics: security, log-in, blogs, user contributions, comments, polls, forum discussions, images, contact forms, and much more.
- For everyone who works with Drupal, from new users to enterprise IT professionals.
- A complete tutorial package: step-by-step instructions, examples, Q and As, quizzes, exercises, tips, shortcuts, and more

Until recently users needed programming skills to use Drupal because there were gaps in its modules. However, since the release of Drupal 6, users can build powerful Drupal sites without having recourse to PHP or even CSS, much less HTML. This is a time of transition for Drupal where the tremendous bang-for-the-buck is unleashed to every CMS level user. This book will cover both Drupal 6 and the soon-to-be-released Drupal 7. Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours is designed to get people started with Drupal. It describes the technology and provides hands-on experience. Because websites (and particularly Drupal sites) are often joint efforts, it also provides a guide to the non-technical aspects that collaborators and managers need to handle. This book will enable readers to put up a successful Drupal website. The later chapters each focus on specific technologies such as polls, events and calendars, and searching. For each technology, the reasons it might be used are provided along with the details of how to use it. The user can assemble whichever technologies are appropriate.