Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6

Drupal 6 is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) widely used by many webmasters. However, I have personally observed that it is somewhat difficult to master the backend of the script. Drupal is not simple like WordPress but I recently received a copy of David Mercer book for review from Packt Publishing. Even though I don’t have any plan to incorporate Drupal into any of my websites I found that David has done a terrific job by examining all the features in a comprehensive manner. The book contains 10 chapters and an Appendix.

Chapter 1 provides a basic overview of Drupal including the various resources available to gain more knowledge about Drupal. Chapter 2 analyzes the installation procedure in detail. The author also provides solution to some of the common problems which occur during installation stage. The chapter ends with the steps required to create a basic page using Drupal. Chapters 3 and 4 provides a detailed overview of the configuration of Modules, Blocks, Menus, Links and Site related functionalities such as Search Engine Friendly URLs, Logging, Reporting, Uploads and much more.

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