Learning Drupal 8 - Softcover

Nick Abbott; Richard Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782168753 ISBN 13: 9781782168751

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2016

Synopsis

Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet

About This Book

• Build complete, complex websites with no prior knowledge of web development entirely using the intuitive Drupal user interface
• Follow a practical case study chapter-by-chapter to construct a complete website as you progress
• Ensure your sites are modern, responsive and mobile-friendly through utilizing the full features available in Drupal 8

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

What You Will Learn

• Set up a local “stack” development environment and install your first Drupal 8 site
• Find out what is available in Drupal 8 core
• Define content types and taxonomies―and find out when you should do so
• Use the powerful Views module
• Get hands-on with image and media handling
• Extend Drupal using custom community modules
• Develop the look and feel of your website using Drupal themes
• Manage site users and permissions

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This is an absolute beginners' guide, providing step-by-step instructions to help you learn Drupal 8 from scratch.

About this title

About the Author

Nick Abbott

Nick Abbott is the head of training at iKOS. Nick started his digital life in 1981 working on an ICL 2904 mainframe, a Commodore PET, and a Commodore VIC20. After the ritual stint in BASIC, he moved on to writing games in Z80 and 6502 assemblers, hardware interfacing, and many happy hours creating business solutions with the BBC Micro based around the Acorn View family. Old but not obsolete. He graduated with a first class degree in applied physics in the late 1980s, and he worked in IT and education right up until he joined iKOS in 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782168753
• ISBN 13: 9781782168751
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 330