Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks
of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet
Key Features:
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Build complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web
development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interface
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Follow a practical case study chapter-by-chapter to construct a
complete website as you progress
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Ensure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through
utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8
Book Description:
Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless
new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows
user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take
advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices,
building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs.
The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website.
Start with the basics, such as setting up a local "stack" development
environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to
image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your
knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and
learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new
modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage
a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
What You Will Learn:
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Set up a local "stack" development environment and install your first
Drupal 8 site
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Find out what is available in Drupal 8 core
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Define content types and taxonomies-and find out when you should do so
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Use the powerful Views module
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Get hands-on with image and media handling
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Extend Drupal using custom community modules
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Develop the look and feel of your website using Drupal themes
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Manage site users and permissions
Who this book is for:
If you want to learn to use Drupal 8 for the first time, or you are
transitioning over from a previous version of Drupal, this is the book
for you. No knowledge of PHP, MySQL, or HTML is assumed or required
