Book Description

A complete lifecycle guide to planning and building a site with Drupal Drupal allows you to quickly and easily build a wide variety of web sites, from very simple blog sites to extremely complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for you, you need to plan. Whether you are building with Drupal 6 or 7, this book details the steps necessary to plan your site so you can make informed decisions before you start to build.

• Explains how to define the scope of your project
• Shows you how to create a design plan taking into consideration how Drupal works
• Helps you make informed decisions regarding development methodologies, environments, standards, and site security
• Reviews ways to assess the use of existing and/or custom Drupal modules
• Teaches you how to avoid common pitfalls that can impact a successful site launch
• Walks you through preparing for post-launch site maintenance and management tasks
• Details incorporating the nature of open source systems into your management strategies
• Identifies ways to interact with members of the Drupal community

The processes and techniques provided in this book will empower you to create a successful and sustainable site with Drupal.

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Plan and execute each phase of your Drupal website

Drupal enables you to build a wide variety of websites quickly and easily, from simple blog sites to complex sites that integrate with other systems. In order to maximize what Drupal can do for your website, you need to plan. With this comprehensive book, Drupal expert Cindy McCourt walks you through planning your Drupal site, using optimal methods for leveraging the power and flexibility of the Drupal framework. Regardless of your level of experience working with Drupal, this guide provides you with a series of analyses and tasks from a Drupal perspective that allows you to start thinking in Drupal and helps you plan each phase of your site’s lifecycle.

Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites:

• Presents an overview of a site’s lifecycle and details where planning fits in
• Provides insights into various development methodologies and management practices that are frequently used on a Drupal project
• Helps you identify and analyze what your site needs in order to achieve its objectives
• Shows you how to translate your requirements into a visual representation of your site
• Covers many of the non-development tasks that need to beconsidered for a successful site launch
• Explores developing your Drupal site and shares tips for maintaining and supporting it

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Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMS

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSs

Web sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your site if an attack does occur. You’ll learn a strong, foundational approach to CMS operations and security from an expert in the field.

More and more Web sites are being built on open source CMSs, making them a popular target, thus making you vulnerable to new forms of attack
This is the first comprehensive guide focused on securing the most common CMS platforms: Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, and Plone
Provides the tools for integrating the Web site into business operations, building a security protocol, and developing a disaster recovery plan
Covers hosting, installation security issues, hardening servers against attack, establishing a contingency plan, patching processes, log review, hack recovery, wireless considerations, and infosec policy
CMS Security Handbook is an essential reference for anyone responsible for a Web site built on an open source CMS.

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Protect your business. Protect your customers. Here’s how:

Websites built on open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) are uniquely vulnerable. If you are responsible for maintaining one, or if you are the executive or business owner in charge of approving IT budgets, you need to know what’s in this book. Here’s the lowdown on very real security threats, how attacks are carried out, what security measures you need to take, and how to compile a disaster recovery plan. Don’t wait. Your business may depend on the action you take.

Learn what to look for in a hosting company
Examine your website through the eyes of a hacker
Explore the many tools that help you assess system vulnerabilities
Discover ways to prevent problems before they start
Know what steps you can take to protect your server from attack
Create a workable disaster recovery plan
Develop an IT security policy that can be implemented and followed

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Study Drupal 7

This book focuses on the nontechnical user who is responsible for building, maintaining, and managing Drupal web sites. The book covers why you should consider using Drupal when building a new web site, what Drupal is, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and more advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views. By reading this book, you will:

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• Understand why you should use Drupal and the power of the platform.
• Quickly build confidence in your ability to use Drupal.
• Gain the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites of moderate complexity on Drupal 7.

What you’ll learn

• What Drupal is and why you should use it
• How to install a basic Drupal web site from scratch
• How to create content in your new Drupal web site
• How to manage users on your new Drupal web site
• How to change the look and feel of your new Drupal web site through themes
• How to install and configure modules

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Who this book is for
This book is for nontechnical users who need to use Drupal to manage content, as well as PHP developers who are new to Drupal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (June, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430228598
• ISBN-13: 978-1430228592

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drupal development

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in use today. With it, you can create a variety of community-driven sites, including blogs, forums, wiki-style sites, and much more.

Pro Drupal Development was written to arm you with knowledge to customize your Drupal installation however you see fit. The book assumes that you already possess the knowledge to install and bring a standard installation online. Then authors John VanDyk and Matt Westgate delve into Drupal internals, showing you how to truly take advantage of its powerful architecture.

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Youll learn how to create your own modules, develop your own themes, and produce your own filters. You’ll learn the inner workings of each key part of Drupal, including user management, sessions, the node system, caching, and the various APIs available to you. Of course, your Drupal-powered site isnt effective until you can efficiently serve pages to your visitors. As such, the authors have included the information you need to optimize your Drupal installation to perform well under high-load situations. Also featured is information on Drupal security and best practices, as well as integration of Ajax and the internationalization of your Drupal web site. Simply put, if you are working with Drupal at all, then you need this book. * This book is written by Drupal core developers. * Drupal architecture and behavior are mapped out visually. * Common pitfalls are identified and addressed. * Chapters provide regular discussion and reference to why things work they way they do, not just how. * The front matter features a foreword by Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder.

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Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.

Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.[ad code=1 align=center]

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

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