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Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.
In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.
Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
Understand Drupal’s theme layer, and what to look for in a base theme
Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views module
Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently
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Dani Nordin is the founder and principal designer of the zen kitchen, where you'll find tasty marketing and design ideas with an eco-friendly twist. She has over 10 years of experience designing award-winning work for small to large businesses and non-profits.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 starsNot for Drupal noobs10 April 2012
By Eugene Mah - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
If you're new(ish) to Drupal, this isn't the book you want to start with.
The book presents a bunch of useful tips for the design phase of creating a Drupal site, using a website the author worked on as a practical example, and a number of case studies/interviews with professional Drupal developers.
As someone who hasn't done too much out-of-the-box Drupal stuff yet, I found it a useful read and learned a few new things about Drupal. It won't make you a professional Drupal-er overnight, but there are some good tips and tricks for designing and prototyping Drupal sites.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 starsToo hard for me21 Jan 2012
By Michael - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I've tried a couple of times but I've never been able to understand Drupal. Maybe its because I'm not great at reading all the instructions, preferring to take a play and learn approach, doing a bit, reading the how to, doing a bit more.
So when O'Reilly Media published Dani Nordon's Design and Prototyping for Drupal I thought "great - at long last I'll understand Drupal".
Well, close but not quite.
The book could just as easily be called 'Design and prototyping for the internet... with some sections on Drupal'. In fact, the general material on design and prototyping were great, and I'd recommend them to anyone who wants to get some hands-on insights from a writer who knows her craft.
The Drupal parts left me cold. I suspect that if you understand the basics of Drupal then you'd get a lot more out of Nordon's insights into how to use that cumbersome beast to produce elegant websites - but if you are a Drupal no-hoper like me then I'd suggest going with an easier solution (I use Joomla).
So the recommendation? Buy it if you understand Drupal enough to feel comfortable negotiating it's weird ways. Borrow it if you're interested in web design, it is a wealth of wisdom from a great designer. Pass it if you are hoping, like I was, to have the mystery of Drupal revealed.
