Book description
Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.
In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.
- Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
- Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
- Understand Drupal’s theme layer, and what to look for in a base theme
- Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
- Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views module
- Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently
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Table of contents
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Design and Prototyping for Drupal
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- Preface
- I. Getting Started: Some Stuff to Consider
- II. Design and Layout
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III. Prototyping, Theming, and Managing your Markup
- 8. Paper Prototyping
- 9. Breaking Down a Layout for Drupal Implementation
- 10. Working with Base Themes
- 11. Prototyping in the Browser
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12. Practical Example #1: Using Views to Enhance a Layout
- But Iâm Not a DeveloperâWhat if I Donât Want to Code?
- Step 1: Create the âEvent Categoriesâ Taxonomy Vocabulary
- Step 2: Create the Event Content Type
- Step 3: Create an Image Style
- Step 4: Create the User Profile
- Step 5: Getting Profile Content into the Event Page
- Step 6: Setting Up the Contextual Filter
- Step 7: Setting Up the âRelated Eventsâ Block
- So What Did We Just Do Here?
- 13. Practical Example #2: Controlling Views Markup
- 14. Managing Your Code: Some Modules that Can Help
- 15. Working with LessCSS
- About the Author
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Product information
- Title: Design and Prototyping for Drupal
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449325978
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