Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right

Book Description 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 Drupal: views, panels, themes, content creation, etc. The book will cover:
* How to upgrade your hopelessly outdated and obsolete-software dependent site and bring it into the Drupal mainstream and future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
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Content

Part I - Launching Your Website as a Software Project
Chapter 1: Keeping It Simple
Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps
Chapter 3: Getting Organized
Chapter 4: Getting up to Speed

Part II - Getting Your 5.x Site Up-To-Date
Chapter 5: Finishing up the Elaboration Phase
Chapter 6: Pushing the Envelope
Chapter 7: Becoming an Expert Drupal Themer

Part III - Upgrading Your Drupal Site
Chapter 8: Upgrading to Drupal 6
Chapter 9: Upgrading to Drupal 6 Revisited

Part IV - Getting the Most out of Drupal 6.x
Chapter 10: Installing and Using Drupal 6 Fresh out of the Box
Chapter 11: Full Swing Agile Approach to Drupal Development
Chapter 12: The jQuery Chapter

Part V - Drupal 7 and the Road Ahead
Chapter 13: From Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 and Beyond
Chapter 14: Deploying your Application as a Drupal Installation Profile
Chapter 15: Acquia Drupal as an Enterprise-Ready Alternative