Drupal 6 Content Administration

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 00:30
On shelves now, by J. Ayen Green of Ayen Designs. If you need to make good use of your Drupal site, but aren't a developer or haven't worked with Drupal or a Content Management System before, this is a book for you.

What you will learn from this book

  • Learn the various methods of inputting text , the various content creation and editing capabilities that are available to users
  • Add elements to your content to spice it up: teasers, links, images, embedded sound, embedded video, PDFs
  • Make changes to the article you created, use a PHP snippet to provide content, edit a revised article
  • Apply basic Search Engine Optimization by creating a URL and category tags to complement the content
  • Create a text block in order to make content available in multiple locations, create a video block to use in the site margin, create a blog entry
  • Set up the framework for a creative editorial team having editors with different roles and privileges, working together to keep the site up to date
  • Use options for creating and editing content offline and via email and apply each of the methods you learned to send content to the project site

Book Details

Language English
Paperback 196 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date June 2009
ISBN 1847198562
ISBN 13 978-1-847198-56-3
Author(s) J. Ayen Green
Topics and Technologies Content Management, Open Source, Drupal

Comments

Not Tough to Understand

by Anonymous - 11/23/2009 - 03:24

And I'm far from a technophile! I felt it was easy enough to concentrate and extract the information.

melanie

I just bought the book...

by Anonymous - 11/17/2009 - 17:39

I must say this is a very good guide! I am somewhat new to Drupal and this is just what the doctor ordered! Very easy to follow and very informative.

Thanks,

John

Is this good for a completely noob?

by Anonymous - 11/03/2009 - 16:55

I'm doing some research to start my wallpaper website with Drupal, but I'm just knowing a little bit about it. Would this work for me?

salvia

re: Is this good for a completely noob?

by affinity07 - 11/07/2009 - 11:52

Absolutely. A 'Content Administrator' is simply the person who is creating and managing the site's content, and in the case of small sites is often the noob of many hats. The book assumes only a knowledge of prior general Internet use.

How intense is this book?

by Anonymous - 11/01/2009 - 15:36

Well the last Drupal book I bought (Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6) was pretty intense in my opinion, it seemed the content was never ending and a little too geeky for me. Is this book fairly easy going?

Just bought this book, its

by Anonymous - 11/03/2009 - 16:33

Just bought this book, its not too geeky at all
Regards

With the target audience being content administrators, as oppose

by affinity07 - 11/01/2009 - 17:05

With the target audience being content administrators, as opposed to developers, it was purposely written to not be geeky, as were its hands-on activities

Perhaps I will buy this book.

by Anonymous - 09/13/2009 - 16:01

Perhaps I will buy this book. Not for myself, I develop Drupal websites customers still have a hard time administration content and all it's side-functions. For this reason I think this book is a great addition to the established guides out there. geld verdienen best regards.

It's probably good to note

by Anonymous - 09/28/2009 - 13:03

It's probably good to note that this book is really touching all the subjects, when someone just needs to add and edit content, a smaller guide or maybe even a website tutorial would be sufficient.

Cheers benzine

Sure, there's always an

by affinity07 - 09/29/2009 - 10:32

Sure, there's always an alternative to the printed page: tutorials, IRC and the like. I would certainly recommend that people buy any technical book by its table of contents and not its cover.

Given the context of creating and administering content, the book touches on many, perhaps even most topics, but then again that was the idea. They're well segregated. You're free to use whichever chapter addresses your need at the time.

Firstly, I need to add to any

by affinity07 - 08/15/2009 - 10:48

Firstly, I need to add to any future edition of the book to REMEMBER THE COMMENTS ARE MODERATED if you set it that way. I didn't, so I apologize for taking so long to stumble onto your comment!!

I tried to set up the examples in the book so that they could be done in a similar fashion with any site, given the same modules, so a site with content that is meaningful to your wife would be more useful. That said, if I get further requests for a companion site, I'll certainly consider making one for download. I don't know that having a live one would be practical, since back end changes would leave the site different after one use.

Just a quick note

by Anonymous - 10/29/2009 - 23:23

Thanks for the post - it's interesting to see some of the differences between CMS's like Drupal and Wordpress. So much power, so many positives... it's a wonder that most enterprise sites don't build more of their sites on these two platforms. Currently working on a legal jobs site that was built in ASPX and wondering if it would have been so much easier to just build it on an open source CMS. Anyway, thanks for the post.

Thanks

by Anonymous - 11/13/2009 - 00:31

Is this more of a intro to Drupal book, because that is what I need? Larry

Thanks

by Anonymous - 11/26/2009 - 06:28

I'd been having trouble understanding drupal fully for sometime now, I bought this book from Amazon UK and its been very useful. I would recommend to all Mark