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Drupal 7 [Paperback]

D Mercer

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7 Sep 2010
Drupal is an elegantly designed, well-supported and flexible open-source CMS platform that anyone can use in order to create their own website. What's more, the latest version of Drupal 7 includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers. Drupal is a hugely popular and widely celebrated open-source Content Management System that is day-by-day becoming the first choice of people for a wide range of websites. The White house and the British government, to name but a few, turn to Drupal to fulfill their online requirements.

This book provides the best way to learn and master Drupal 7, enabling you to create virtually any type of website. It meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to design and build sites like a pro.

With such a powerful tool at your fingertips there is no longer any need to pay professionals to design a site when you can do the same job yourself absolutely free. All it takes is a bit of practice!

By clearly and concisely demonstrating the fundamentals of Drupal and combining this with practical and methodical coverage of more advanced subjects, this book paves the way for anyone to quickly become proficient at building and operating professional websites.

150 quiz questions and exercises will help you to consolidate and expand on what you learn in the book. It is an indispensable companion for anyone and everyone interested in building a website.

Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow you to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.

David Mercer's new book is a comprehensive beginner's guide to installing, configuring, and building a professional Drupal 7 website

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David Mercer


David Mercer was born in August 1976 in Harare, Zimbabwe. As he always had a strong interest in science, he came into regular contact with computers at the university where he graduated cum laude with majors in applied math and math (although he minored in computer science).


As a programmer and professional writer who has been writing both code and books for about ten years, he has worked on a number of well known titles, in various capacities, on a wide variety of topics. His books have been translated into over nine different languages to date.


David believes that everyone should be able to benefit from the vast potential of the Internet. He founded Site prebuilder to provide education and services to reduce the barrier to entry for Internet newcomers. The aim of Site prebuilder is to empower ordinary, non-techie people with the knowledge and skill required to run any website efficiently.


When he isn't working, which isn't that often, he enjoys playing the guitar (generally on stage and unrehearsed) and getting involved in outdoor activities ranging from touch rugby and golf to water skiing and snowboarding.


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1.0 out of 5 stars Complete Disaster - Written Against an Alpha Version and Largely Irrelevent 15 Dec 2010
By Financial Reader - Published on Amazon.com
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A lot of time has passed between when this book was written and today. That also means a lot has changed in the development of Drupal 7. Reading this book is like playing a guessing game of how the Drupal developers changed things between the Alpha version of Drupal 7 (against which this book was written) and the current release candidates and actual releases.

I can tell you that over 50% of the content in this book is either **wrong** or **irrelevant** unless you intend on using an old Alpha version of Drupal 7 in production (not a good idea). This book was clearly written in an opportunistic way to capitalize on the upcoming release of Drupal 7 without any regard to its relevance once Drupal 7 actually comes out. I for one think it's a shameful way to write books and even though I have never written a review on this site, I felt compelled to warn others. The author should apologize for wasting my time and the time of any other poor sap who spent hard-earned money on this waste of paper.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive but easy to follow 14 Nov 2010
By S. Wile - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I have some experience with Drupal version 6, having created a Drupal site for a class I taught. I felt like I knew some aspects of Drupal very well, and others (views, themes) not so well. This book walks you through just about every feature of Drupal 7, providing screenshots, reviewing options, and giving examples. It might have been a little overwhelming if I had not already had some familiarity with Drupal, but a beginner should also be able to follow it.

Because Drupal 7 is a work in progress, there were a few minor mismatches between the screenshots and instructions in this book, and the version I was using (beta2). It is essential that you install Drupal 7 and work through the examples. For one thing, it will be much more fun, and you'll absorb the information better.

I was particularly pleased with the presentation of the views feature. I admit to writing modules when views would have been sufficient, and I won't have any excuses next time. Almost all of my previous Drupal knowledge came from VanDyk's Pro Drupal Development, which walks you through module development but skips some of the built-in features. This book is a great complement to that one. I think the combination of a methodical progression through the world of Drupal 7, combined with lots of examples, makes this book invaluable. I'll still be using Drupal 6 for awhile, but there is enough similarity between versions that I will be consulting this book when I update my web site with a modified theme and some other new elements.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for taking a newcomer to intermediate level 23 Jun 2011
By B. C. Chan - Published on Amazon.com
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One reviewer says that over 50% of the book is inaccurate. That statement is incorrect, in my opinion. The true percentage is closer to 4% or 5%, mostly in the screenshots and the references to menu items, especially for panels and views. This is unavoidable because there are slight differences between Drupal 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.4 and 7.7. A few menu items are different between the book and the actual Drupal 7.7, but there is nothing of functional significance, just discrepancies (but those discrepancies pertaining to Views can be confusing).

I am a relative newcomer to Drupal who is semi computer-literate (I have been writing Windows desktop programs using the Delphi language for the past 15 years). This book is the first Drupal book, or any book, that has guided me to a successful no-pain installation of Apache-MySQL-PHP plus Drupal on my Windows system. The reason was that the writer was very specific about things such as folders, using plain language without unnecessary technical sidetracks. (By contrast, there is another book on Drupal 7 that has an unfinished discussion about installing Apache-MySQL-PHP that left me dangling, followed by an equally hasty and vague discussion about installing Drupal.)

After guiding me to a successful installation of XAMPP and Drupal, the book covered the broad sweep of Drupal's functionalities, giving me a basic working knowledge of Drupal without bombarding me with things such as PHP.

In summary, this book is an excellent fast-track to Drupal, one of those rare books which offer much gain with no unnecessary pain. The foundational topics and the more advanced topics in this book are well developed, and will take you well into the intermediate Drupal level.

UPDATE: I have gone through two other Drupal 7 books, but the one by Mercer is the best of the three, in my opinion.
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