Front End Drupal : Designing, Theming, Scripting (1ST)

Front End Drupal : Designing, Theming, Scripting (1ST)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 427 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780137136698
  • DDC分類 006.76

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"For Drupal to succeed, we need books like this."-Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project lead"Drupal faces a common problem on the Web-the relative lack of new, high quality themes. Front End Drupal tackles this problem directly and is designed to help both experienced designers and rank novices get an understanding of how Drupal theming works. In fact, I'll be the first to admit I learned a lot from this book." - Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and project leadThe Practical, Complete Guide to Customizing Drupal Sites with Behaviors, Themes, and TemplatesDrupal is now the world's #1 open source content management system: Thousands of individuals and organizations are using it to build and update Web sites of virtually every kind. As Web designers and developers adopt Drupal, they need ways to quickly customize the visuals and interactivity of their sites. Drupal offers powerful tools for doing so, but little guidance on using them effectively. Front End Drupal is the solution. In this book, two expert Drupal developers cover everything you need to know to create great visual designs and state-of-the-art interactivity with Drupal's behaviors, themes, and templates.Front End Drupal is 100% focused on issues of site design, behavior, usability, and management. The authors show how to style Drupal sites, make the most of Drupal's powerful templating system, build sophisticated community sites, streamline site management, and build more portable, flexible themes. You'll also gain hands-on experience through several case studies that walk you through the customization of everything from page templates to Web site forums.Prepare and organize content so it's easier to integrate into Drupal Web sitesStructure Drupal page templates that are easy to work withConfigure Drupal with the modules and browser tools you need to customize your siteUtilize Drupal's Starter Themes and themes converted from WordPress, Joomla! (TM), and Drupal 5.xMaximize the power and usability of Drupal's content editing formsBuild usable community sites with user profiles, comments, and user-generated contentUse JavaScript (TM) to make your themes interactive and to enhance usabilityCreate powerful animations and AJAX callbacks with jQuery, Drupal's JavaScript libraryAbout the Web SiteThe accompanying site, frontenddrupal.com, contains all sample code and themes presented in this book.

Contents

Foreword xviiPreface xixAcknowledgments xxiiiAbout the Authors xxvChapter 1: Web Page Design 1Describing Content 2Organizing Lists of Content 8Page Design and Layout 14Interaction 20Code 22Work Flow 25Summary 29Chapter 2: The Themers' Toolkit 31A Gentle Introduction 32Theming Strategies 33Drupal Terminology 36Must-Have Modules 42Browser Tools 60Language References 65Maintaining Your System 69Summary 71Chapter 3: Working with Drupal Themes 73Finding Themes 74Installing Drupal Themes 78Administering Themes 82Anatomy of a Theme 88Starter Themes 94Migrating to Drupal 6 99Summary 104Chapter 4: The Drupal Page 107Elements of a Page 107Sitewide Page Variables 109Navigation and Menus 115Grid Work 120Search 126Changing Templates 128Alias: Page 133Taxonomy Templates 138Delivering Plain Content 141Summary 149Chapter 5: Drupal Content 151Node Templates 151Gaining More Control Than $content Provides 155Node Template Variables 161Pages and Teasers 165Images 169Making Lists of Content with Views 177Summary 181Chapter 6: Customizing the Content-Editing Forms 183Web Forms 184Form Candy 185Rich Text Editing 195Altering Forms with FAPI 201Multiple-Page Forms 210Improving Access to Edit Screens 212Summary 217Chapter 7: Users and Community Participation 219Users 219Granting and Restricting Access 227Community Comments 231User-Generated Content 235Spam 240Private Web Site Areas 244Summary 248Chapter 8: Administrative Interfaces 251Creating a Custom Administrative Interface 252Task-Based Navigation 256Administrative Menus 261Administrative Dashboards and Control Panels 266Custom Administrative Screens 270Error! 279Summary 283Chapter 9: Learning JavaScript 285JavaScript versus DOM 286The JavaScript Language 287Object Orientation in JavaScript 293Summary 309Chapter 10: An Introduction to jQuery 311A First Look at jQuery 313Using jQuery 320Leveraging jQuery's Full Potential 333Using Other JavaScript Libraries 343Summary 344Chapter 11: JavaScript in Drupal 345Server-Side Drupal Integration 345Architecting a Component 353Example: Horizontal Scroller 355Using Plugins and jQuery UI 377Summary 380Appendix A: Installing Drupal 381Setting Up a Development Server 381Configuring Document Root and Virtual Hosts 383Installing Drupal-and Common Hurdles to Its Installation 385A Quick Glance at the Admin Area 388Installing Modules 389Appendix B: Supplemental Code 391template 391demo-module 397template-skeleton 400horizscroll and horizscroll-datasource 404sparkline 415Index 419