Don't buy this book! Consider the new edition | Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community...

Excellent Drupal Reference | Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites | David Mercer

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	• Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites David Mercer Packt Publishing, 2006 - 284 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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Very thorough...

This is a very thorough explanation of Drupal. For those who prefer to fine tune and tweak everything on your own computer before uploading it and working out the kinks of connecting to your databases later, you'll like how it's set up.

Don't buy this book! Consider the new edition

If you are new to Drupal (and those are the only people who shold be buying this book), I suggest you think twice about it. This book is perfectly good and I got a lot of value out of it when I was starting out a few months back, but there is a NEWER VERSION out. The new edition covers Drupal version 6 which is the latest version of the Drupal software. This edition covers version 5.

The only reason why you might want this book now is if you are new to Drupal AND you specifically have reason to be using Drupal version 5. If that's you, then this book is for you.

Note: If you do buy this book, do not follow his instructins about installing Apache2Triad. I did and only later learned that this is a very old package that is not well supported. After a few months, I switched over to XAMPP, a much more widely used and current Apache/mySQL/PHP/Perl implementation.

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Excellent Drupal Reference

We like having this reference around to help with our new Drupal-based website. It is well-organized and pretty easy to understand, even for nonprogrammers.

A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal's modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support. Drupal's power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes your from intial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.

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