Design and Prototyping for Drupal

Design and Prototyping for Drupal, 9781449305505 (1449305504), O'Reilly, 2011

If you’re reading this book, you’re probably a web designer who has heard of Drupal, wants to get started with it, and may have even tried it out a couple of times. And you might be frustrated because even if you’re used to code, Drupal has thrown you a major learning curve that you hadn’t expected. And just when you think you’ve gotten a basic site together, now you have to figure out how to make it look right—and the whole process starts over again.

Yep, I’ve been there too. That’s why I wrote this book.

This book is for the solo site builder or small team that’s itching to do interesting things with Drupal, but needs a bit of help understanding how to set up a successful Drupal project. It’s for the designer who knows HTML and CSS, but doesn’t want to have to learn how to speak developer in order to parse Drupal documentation. Most importantly, this book is for those who want to use Drupal to make their vision a reality, but need help working their minds around the way that Drupal handles design challenges.

Itching to build interesting projects with Drupal, but confused by the way it handles design challenges? This concise guide helps small teams and solo website designers understand how Drupal works by demonstrating the ways it outputs content. You’ll learn how to manage Drupal’s output, design around it, and then turn your design into a theme.

In the second of three volumes on Drupal design, award-winning designer Dani Nordin takes you beyond basic site planning and teaches you key strategies for working with themes, layouts, and wireframes. Discover how to use Drupal to make your vision a reality, instead of getting distracted by the system’s project and code management details.

Learn strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
Break down a Drupal layout to understand its basic components
Understand Drupal’s theme layer, and what to look for in a base theme
Work with the 960 grid system to facilitate efficient wireframing and theming
Manage Drupal markup, including the code generated by the powerful Views module
Use LessCSS to organize CSS and help you theme your site more efficiently

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