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Video Description

In this video, Addison Berry, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins illustrate Drupal’s concepts and define much of its jargon while building a complete website. You’ll see how to download and install modules, create and configure content types, build listing pages, and configure Drupal’s multi-user permission system. The team shows how to use Drupal’s taxonomy system to classify and organize your site’s content, how to create and configure sidebar content using blocks, and many common tasks such as setting up a rich-text editor. Also discussed are tips for choosing which contributed modules to use, how to create private content, and how to launch a site. The video also shows how many pre- and post-launch tasks such as configuring cron, and how to upgrade your site to a new version of Drupal. This video will give you the knowledge you need to building powerfully flexible and dynamic community websites.

Full chapter listing:

1. Introduction
2. Installing Drupal
3. Orientation to a new Drupal site
4. Installing & enabling modules
5. Building different content types
6. Creating listing pages
7. Creating user roles & permissions
8. Adding taxonomy fields to content
9. Installing custom themes
10. Configuring blocks
11. Strategies for finding modules
12. Configuring WYSIWYG & Input Formats
13. Enabling node access & private files
14. Configuring cron & search
15. Prepping for launch
16. Upgrading & updating your Drupal site
17. Conclusion (free chapter available)

Video Details

• Produced: Jeff Robbins
• Directed and Edited: Kent Bye
• Total running time: 4 hours 45 minutes

E-Book

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Paper Book

Site Building With Drupal (Video)