Leveraging Drupal

This book is a step-by-step guide and a hands-on co-pilotedexperience for those trying to make Drupal powered websites workfor them, and for their clients. Much more than a „tutorial“, whatis needed is a nuts-and-bolts living mentor and guide which reallyshows the reader how to do the things really required for bringingit all together in a site which works. This will be the only bookcovering all the difficult components of Drupal: views, panels, themes, content creation, etc. The book will cover:
* How to upgrade your hopelessly outdated and obsolete-softwaredependent site and bring it into the Drupal mainstream andfuture
* How to become a great Drupal themer and make „non-Drupal“ lookingsites
* How to really customize Drupal for your real needs
* How to start using best practices in Drupal web applicationdevelopment
* How to work like the pro Drupal shops and be ready for bigprojects - and small ones
* Learn by example (code samples, theme samples, videos) at everystep