Beginning Drupal 8

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction to Drupal

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 1-7

3. Creating and Managing Content

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 9-22

4. Creating and Managing Users

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 23-33

5. Taxonomy

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 35-46

6. Content Types

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 47-72

7. Using Drupal Themes

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 73-82

8. Creating Menus

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 83-90

9. Drupal Blocks

   • Todd Tomlinson

   Pages 91-98

10. Views

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 99-116

11. Creating Pages

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 117-125

12. Drupal Modules

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 127-140

13. Anatomy of a Module

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 141-145

14. Multilingual Capabilities

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 147-155

15. Administering Your Drupal Site

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 157-168

16. Using Drush

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 169-175

17. Using Git

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 177-183

18. Putting It All Together

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 185-191

19. Creating a Responsive Site

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 193-200

20. Creating a Blog Site

    • Todd Tomlinson

    Pages 201-208

Beginning Drupal 8 teaches you how to build, maintain, and manage Drupal 8-based web sites. The book covers what Drupal is, using Drupal when building a new web site, installing and configuring Drupal, creating and managing content, managing users, adding functionality to your web site through Drupal modules, and advanced topics on using themes, panels, and views.

The book also builds practical examples of common Drupal sites, such as a company website, a community website, and a commerce website, that you can take and expand on to create your own Drupal 8 sites. By reading this book, you will understand the power of the Drupal platform, and why you should be using Drupal if you're not already. Through following the samples in the book, you will quickly build your confidence and your ability to use Drupal. Beginning Drupal 8 gives you the knowledge necessary to build, deploy, and manage web sites on Drupal 8.

Todd Tomlinson is a seasoned IT executive with 36 years of experience crossing multiple continents and technologies. He is a former Senior Director of EBusiness Strategy for Oracle Corporation, Senior Manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Practice Director for IBM, Vice President for Claremont Technology Group,co-Founder-Vice President-and CTO of Emerald Solutions, Senior Managing Partner for CNF Ventures, Vice President of the Drupal Consulting Practice at ServerLogic. Todd is currently the Senior Enterprise Drupal Architect for Unicon. Todd's passion for the web began in 1987 when he worked for the National Science Foundation at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh(Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) - and expanded when he helped Netscape Communication deploy their server platforms around the world in 1995-1996. He started using Drupal as a mechanism to teach advanced web design and development at the University of Phoenix, where he was the area chair and lead faculty member in the School of Business and Information Technology. He has helped many of the worlds largest organizations refocus their business around the web. He is the author of Pro Drupal 7 Development, Beginning Drupal 7, and Beginning Drupal 8 (Apress Publishing).

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