Drupal® For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

What You Don't Need to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started with Drupal

Part II: Your First Drupal Site

Part III: Bending Drupal to Your Will

Part IV: Taking Drupal to the Next Level

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Drupal

Chapter 1: The Big Picture

What Drupal Is

Free

Flexible

Customizable

A Content Management System

What Drupal Isn't

What Drupal Can Do for Your Site

Polls

Blogs

Contact forms

Forums

Examples of Drupal Sites

Drupal.org

Zappos.com

Drupalmuseum.com and Drupalsites.net

Chapter 2: Getting and Installing Drupal

Deciding Where Your Site Will Live

Getting on the web

Web hosting companies

Installing on a web host with Softaculous

Obtaining Drupal

Downloading the package

Uploading the package

Extracting Drupal

Setting Up a Database

What a database is and why you need one

Creating a database for Drupal

Installing Drupal on a Web Host

Browsing to your Drupal site

Running the setup

Installing Drupal on a Local Machine

What you need

Getting Apache, MySQL, and PHP

Finishing installation on a local machine

Running the installation

Chapter 3: Essential Administration

Setting a Strategy for Your Drupal Site

Working With Your Account

Logging in and logging out

Editing your account

Embracing Drupal Terminology

Creating Content for Your Site

Creating an article

Changing the default theme

Configuring Your ...