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Beginning Drupal 8

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Authors:
  1. Todd Tomlinson
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  • Provides non-technical readers with the knowledge necessary to successfully download, install, configure, and build Drupal 8 based websites

  • Provides the technical reader (developer), with the basics of the Drupal platform to support their entry into Drupal development.

  • Builds upon the success of Beginning Drupal 7, with more content, more in depth examples, and more topics

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

About the author

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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