Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites

Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites author: David Mercer rating: asin: 1904811809 binding: Paperback list price: $39.99 USD amazon price: $35.99 USD

This book is written describing Drupal 4.x, which is old now (5.2 is the current version of Drupal and they are working on 6), but the concepts behind some of the features are still relevant. The book also gives a brief history of Drupal and how it came to be.

The graphics are weak in it and it's not an in-depth guide. If you are just starting out with Drupal and want to get an overview of this great CMS system, this book may help.

I bought it, read it, and learned from it. I have not gone back to it for much reference though.

This is from Amazon's Editors:
A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal's modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support. Drupal's power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes your from intial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.