This is the third installment in the popular Drupal Themes series.
Drupal 7 Themes is an ideal introduction to theming with Drupal 6. If you want to create a striking new look for your Drupal 6 website, this book is for you. This book is an extensively revised, updated and expanded edition of Drupal 6 Themes, written specifically for Drupal 7. The book will show you techniques and tools to help you improve the look and feel of any Drupal 7-powered website.
Packt Publishing has released the most recent installment in their popular Drupal Themes series of titles: Drupal 7 Themes. The new book updates and expands up on the Drupal 6 edition.
Finally, a solid reference for Webmasters on Drupal
Web content management systems (CMS) are hot, and the flexible and powerful open source Drupal is one of the most popular. Whether you're designing a new Web site or looking for an easier way to publish content to your existing site, this practical book shows you how to use Drupal 7 to do it. Learn how to create, manage, and present content via public or private Web sites, even if you don't have deep technical skills.
* Install Drupal and configure a Drupal site
This article is the second in our serialization of several chapters from the upcoming Drupal 7 Bible. In this installment in the series, we introduce the default Drupal content types and the related fields.
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As I mentioned earlier in this chapter, all content in Drupal is based on the Node module; this is why Drupal content items are often called nodes. A content item also must be of a specific type. Articles, blog posts, and pages are examples of Drupal content types. You define content types by associating one or more fields with a unique type name.
When you create a new piece of content in Drupal, the first thing you do is select the type of content to create and then fill out a Web form associated with that type (which is, by and large, the act of putting data into Drupal fields), and then you save it.
Open Atrium is a Drupal package specifically tailored for use as an intranet (or extranet) solution. The system is based on the Drupal 6.x core and comes bundled with a number of modules that are specially configured to sing in harmony. The modules include a blog, a calendar, a project and task management functionality, a shout box and a threaded discussion feature that can also be used to add shared files. Open Atrium relies heavily on Organic Groups, which allows the administrator to group users with common interests and provide for each group their own sharing and collaboration space. It is, in short, a way to get either an intranet or a basic project management system up and running quickly.
Open Atrium has been at the center of a fair amount of press in the past few weeks. The system was recently purchased from the originators (Development Seed) by Phase2 Technology. Shortly after the purchase, the first Beta release hit the streets (despite having been around for a while, Open Atrium had been in alpha release limbo for ages!). If you’d like to take a look and see what all the fuss is about, we’ve put together a short tutorial to help you get off to a smooth start with your installation. For this article, we’re using Beta 1.0.
