Drupal Development Tricks For Designers

Author : Dani Nordin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449305539
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drupal Development Tricks for Designers written by Dani Nordin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A designer-friendly guide to Drush, Git, and other tools"--Cover.

Author : Dani Nordin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449334008
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Drupal Development Tricks for Designers written by Dani Nordin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your Drupal skills even further with valuable tricks for making site building truly efficient. In this concise guide—the third in a series by award-winning designer Dani Nordin—you’ll learn how to set up your own development environment, quickly update your modules, and use version control to protect yourself from bonehead mistakes. Handle repetitive tasks with ease, avoid hours of frustration, and devote more time to pushing the envelope of Drupal design—just by picking up the basics of a few developer tools. It’s much more than simple coding; it’s real, honest-to-goodness developer Ninja Magick. Learn basic commands and use them in Drupal on the command line Set up your local development environment, and learn ways to collaborate on code with others Download modules, themes, libraries, and more with Drush, the Drupal shell Use Git, the free version control system, and create a GitHub account Pack content types, views, and other functionality you use often into a custom module with Features

Author : Dani Nordin
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ISBN 13 : 9781449325305
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Download or read book Drupal for Designers written by Dani Nordin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick. This book is a compilation of three short guides{u2014}Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers{u2014}plus exclusive "director{u2019}s material." If you{u2019}re familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal{u2019}s learning curve, this is the book you{u2019}ve been looking for. Get extra material, including an expanded Grids chapter, more recommended modules, and a Short Form Project plan Learn how to work user-centered design practices into Drupal projects Choose the right modules for your project, and discover several go-to modules Use strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts Manage Drupal{u2019}s markup, including code generated by the powerful Views module Learn how to work with Drupal on the command line Set up your development environment and collaborate with other designers and developers Learn the basics of Git, the free open source version control system.

Author : Dani Nordin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449325327
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drupal for Designers written by Dani Nordin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick. This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers—plus exclusive "director’s material." If you’re familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal’s learning curve, this is the book you’ve been looking for. Get extra material, including an expanded Grids chapter, more recommended modules, and a Short Form Project plan Learn how to work user-centered design practices into Drupal projects Choose the right modules for your project, and discover several go-to modules Use strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts Manage Drupal’s markup, including code generated by the powerful Views module Learn how to work with Drupal on the command line Set up your development environment and collaborate with other designers and developers Learn the basics of Git, the free open source version control system

Author : Dani Nordin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449325041
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drupal for Designers written by Dani Nordin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning designer Nordin guides readers through site planning, teaches how to create solid, user-centered design, and shows new tricks. Site builders and designers familiar with HTML and CSS get a compilation of three short guides on planning, design, and prototyping for Drupal.

Author : Dani Nordin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449305504
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Download or read book Design and Prototyping for Drupal written by Dani Nordin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Dani Nordin
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449317103
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning and Managing Drupal Projects written by Dani Nordin and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a solo website designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, this concise guide will get you started. Drupal’s learning curve has thrown off many experienced designers, particularly the way it handles design challenges. This book shows you the lifecycle of a typical Drupal project, with emphasis on the early stages of site planning. Learn how to efficiently estimate and set up your own project, so you can focus on ways to make your vision a reality, rather than let project management details constantly distract you. Plan and estimate your project by discovering your client’s goals and audience perceptions Discover how Drupal works under the hood, and learn basic DrupalSpeak Frame the UX design challenge through a deeper understanding of your site’s intended users Get real content for your project as early as possible—before you start prototyping Choose the right modules for your project, and learn about several go-to modules Understand how to walk clients through the Drupal design and development process

Author : RJ Townsend
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1430228091
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundation Drupal 7 written by RJ Townsend and published by Apress. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drupal is a content management framework that powers web sites from simple online brochures to more advanced sites including social networking sites, blogs, e-commerce sites, business portals, and more. It is free, open source software that allows anyone to quickly and easily build web sites. Its full range of modules—including user permissions, security mechanisms, JavaScript menus, image uploaders, WYSIWYG editors, and more— helps you easily create the foundation for a powerful web site. With its templating system (and a few tips and tricks), any graphic design file can be used to create a Drupal web site. Foundation Drupal 7 covers all the topics necessary to quickly build Drupal-powered web sites, explaining in simple terms how Drupal works and providing you with concepts, tips, and code snippets for every step of the development process. From setting up a Drupal-ready web host and installing Drupal to using the administrative interface and configuring a site from start to finish, there is something here for everyone. In addition to thoroughly discussing all of Drupal’s core modules, this book reviews more than 50 contributed modules, including WYSIWYG HTML editors, JavaScript drop-down menus, web forms, and even the powerful Views module. Stephanie Pakrul, creator and maintainer of the Fusion theme, coauthors a chapter on how to lay out and add graphics to a site through Drupal’s administrative section. After reading this book, you will walk away with everything you need to know to quickly and successfully build a Drupal-powered web site. Whether you’re an experienced Drupal site builder looking to expand your skills, a web developer or designer interested in learning Drupal, or a weekend hobbyist looking to build your first site, Foundation Drupal 7 will give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to bring your ideas to life.

Author : Jeff Sheltren
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449358039
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Performance Drupal written by Jeff Sheltren and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You’ll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis. Covering Drupal versions 7 and 8, this book is the ideal reference for everything from site deployment to implementing specific technologies such as Varnish, memcache, or Solr. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal and the Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) stack, you’re ready to get started. Establish a performance baseline and define goals for improvement Optimize your website’s code and front-end performance Get best and worst practices for customizing Drupal core functionality Apply infrastructure design techniques to launch or expand a site Use tools to configure, monitor, and optimize MySQL performance Employ alternative storage and backend search options as your site grows Tune your web servers through httpd and PHP configuration Monitor services and perform load tests to catch problems before they become critical

Author : Konstantin Käfer
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 0132703033
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front End Drupal written by Konstantin Käfer and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2009-04-05 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For Drupal to succeed, we need books like this.” –Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead “Drupal faces a common problem on the Web–the relative lack of new, high quality themes. Front End Drupal tackles this problem directly and is designed to help both experienced designers and rank novices get an understanding of how Drupal theming works. In fact, I’ll be the first to admit I learned a lot from this book.” – Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead The Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and Templates Drupal is now the world’s #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal’s behaviors, themes, and templates. Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal’s powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You’ll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums. Prepare and organize content so it’s easier to integrate into Drupal Web sites Structure Drupal page templates that are easy to work with Configure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to customize your site Utilize Drupal’s Starter Themes and themes converted from WordPress, Joomla!TM, and Drupal 5.x Maximize the power and usability of Drupal’s content editing forms Build usable community sites with user profiles, comments, and user-generated content Use JavaScriptTM to make your themes interactive and to enhance usability Create powerful animations and AJAX callbacks with jQuery, Drupal’s JavaScript library About the Web Site The accompanying site, frontenddrupal.com, contains all sample code and themes presented in this book.