Drupal Books

Here are some books and online guides about Drupal, the CMS powering our website.

Online Resources

• Drupal handbooks – “A reference for those interested in Drupal whether novice or experienced, users or developers”
• Book: structured document publishing – “A book is a set of [web] pages tied together in sequence, perhaps with chapters, sections, subsections, and so on”
• Best practices – “If you are going to invest the time to set up a CMS, then you should protect your investment by following some simple best practices”

Books

[Note: No endorsement of these titles is intended; they are listed merely for reference. Please seek reviews before purchasing.]

• Books about Drupal – A list of publications at Drupal.org
• Drupal keyword search on Amazon.com – Often has useful user reviews
• Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions – “Implement the essential features of a business or non-profit website using Drupal”
• Hello! Drupal – “For readers with little or no experience with Drupal”
• Drupal in Action – “The book's primary focus is online publishing sites”
• Drupal Multimedia – “Create media-rich Drupal sites by learning to embed and manipulate images, video, and audio”
• Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 – “Build your own professional blog, forum, portal or community website with Drupal 6”
• Drupal for Education and E-Learning – “Covers Drupal 6. Describes how to build a community site to support teaching and learning. Designed for people new to Drupal. Guides you through configuring contributed modules and themes, including CCK, Views, and Organic Groups. The book also covers site maintenance, upgrades, and backups.”
• Using Drupal – “A practical, hands-on way how to combine over thirty of Drupal’s modules to build websites…. You can also think of it as a field guide to CCK and Views, since almost all chapters build on those base modules”
• Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites – “How to setup, configure and customise this powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS”
• Drupal 6 Themes – “Create new themes for your Drupal 6 site with clean layout and powerful CSS styling”
• Drupal 6 Social Networking – “Build a social or community web site”

Videos

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