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Drupal 7 Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide
ISBN: 184951562X | 2012

How disappointing is it to log on to a website for a product or business you love only to discover the feature you were drawn to doesn't work on your mobile or tablet? Drupal has brand new features to adapt your existing site into a mobile site that will keep your customers coming back.
The Drupal Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide follows a humble 'Mom & Pop' restaurant website which gets a makeover complete with cutting edge features that play to mobile, tablet and desktop audiences. By following the fun example, you will finish the book having effortlessly adapted your website so that it is accessible and, more importantly, looks good and functions well, on any mobile device.
Restaurant websites are notoriously horrible to navigate and our Mom & Pop example is wellintentioned but no exception to this rule. We bring this site out of the early 1990's with cutting edge development practices and a team development workflow. This pizza chain goes mobile with location services, audio, video, charting and mapping worthy of any multi-million dollar site. Each chapter examines the way the site works and shows you how to move the existing content and functionality into reusable features.

What you will learn from this book

• Set up Domain Access and Drupal Behaviors that redirect mobile and desktop browsers to the version of the website most appropriate for your client
• Share content across sites without resorting to a multi-site install
• Use context and image styles to create a customized view for the home page
• Create a mobile-friendly menu
• Bundle several exercises up into a feature that can push new content to your live site in one fell swoop
• Create a compelling audio and video experience without using Flash
• Customize a theme that will present your site to mobile and desktop clients alike with a unified marketing message

Drupal 7 Views Cookbook
ISBN: 1849514348 | 2012

The Drupal content management system is purposely created with a 'light footprint', leaving it to the user or developer to add wanted features. Views is the #1 add-on module for Drupal and enables you to filter, select and present your content in ways that are more meaningful to your site visitors.

Drupal 7 Views Cookbook allows you to bypass most of the Views learning curve and quickly take advantage of the capabilities of the Views module through step-by-step instructions for quickly developing dozens of useful views.

Starting with a brief introduction to Views, Drupal 7 Views Cookbook takes you through recipes for elementary views such as displaying randomly selected content, to intermediate views such as customizing links, to advanced views using multiple displays. Along the way there are recipes for theming views, creating a programmatic view and a view handler, administering views, and finally, using some other modules related to the Views module. Recipes are standalone, so pick them in any order!

Don't limit your site with dull content presentation. Empower your site visitors with the recipes that Drupal 7 Views Cookbook delivers!

What you will learn from this book

• Present menu choices for categorized subsets of your content
• Create blocks containing interesting lists or randomly selected images
• Link multiple content types to provide more complete information
• Display complementary content in additional displays
• Design a desktop-like page driven by user input
• Deliver a view from inside a custom module
• Manipulate the templates to add pizzazz to your views
• Administer your views with confidence

Drupal 7 Multi Sites Configuration
ISBN: 1849518009 | 2012

Drupal is one of the most powerful PHP Content Management Systems there is. However, why would you install a CMS for every site you build? With just one copy of Drupal you can host several sites. Drupal has long had multi-site support, and Drupal 7’s support is even better than previous versions.

Drupal 7 Multi-Sites Configuration will teach you how to host several websites on a single copy of Drupal. You will learn how to create different sites, each with its own domain, content, and theme. This valuable information will help you to save time by managing modules and sharing them across several sites as well as administering your sites all in one place.

This book will show you how to configure a system for multi-site, and then install several sites on one copy of Drupal, all with their own domain name and database. Learn how to install and share modules and themes, configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL for multi-site, and then manage the site. Once your site system is successfully set up, discover some of the advanced configurations possible with Drupal multi-site, as well as how to upgrade and maintain your sites.

What you will learn from this book

• Configure MySQL and Apache for hosting multiple sites
• Prepare Drupal 7 to host more than one site
• Install several sites on one instance of Drupal
• Manage, share, or isolate modules and themes in a multi-site configuration
• Care for your multi-site server, safely managing and upgrading it
• Rapidly build a multi-site testing environment with VirtualBox and Vagrant
• Extend the core multi-site configuration with add-on modules