Drupal 6 Site Blueprints

This book is a project-based guide to developing web applications with Drupal. It should enable you to take full advantage of the powerful core features offered by the Drupal framework together with the many available contributed modules and themes to develop applications within hours. This book is, however, not an introduction to Drupal, or an in-depth manual for using Drupal; and even though it partially covers some basics such as installation and how to create nodes, this is only done in the process of building the featured projects. Readers should therefore already have an understanding of the basic Drupal terminologies, how to access and to use the administration pages and also how to customize by uploading and engaging new themes What you will learn from this book You will see how to build the following site projects: An educational, research, or non-profit organization web site A fan site for users wishing to share their interests by blogging - built around the Blog module An events site for listing events from multiple users - built around the Events module A Community Portal for social networking A newspaper site for publishing an online newspaper or magazine An E-Commerce web site with Ubercart A directory site for listings in several categories A photo sharing site for publishing and organizing images from multiple users An hotel and conference facilities booking site for listing items bookable by multiple users by using the Availability Calendar module A Google map site to create complex Google map mashups A news aggregating site for publishing news feeds from several sources Who this book is written for This book is for anybody who wants to build a range of Drupal sites and see how to apply the many available Drupal plugins and features in different scenarios. If you develop Drupal sites professionally, or would like to try building web sites as a freelancer, this is a great book to help you get started.