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In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful, easy-to-maintain websites with Drupal–fast! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill you’ll need, from organizing sites and using Drupal’s design themes to setting up search, polls, forums, and security. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success! Step-by-step instructions … More >>
Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours
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#1 by Midwest Book Review on July 4, 2010 - 7:20 pm
Jesse Fuller’s TEACH YOURELF DRUPAL IN 24 HOURS also offers step-by-step directions and covers the most common Drupal tasks, showing how to use Drupal to build both business and personal websites. From customizing to adding images and links, this tells how to blend all types of content and how to manage users, permissions and more. The value of this package is outstanding.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Kenneth Freed on July 4, 2010 - 8:02 pm
I’ve been a fan of Sam’s Teach Yourself books for years now – and this is the absolute worst one I have ever read. Past the first chapter on installation, it’s more like a first draft consisting of disjointed and poorly organized Drupal concepts. If you are trying to learn Drupal from scratch, don’t waste your money.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by David W. Hogg on July 4, 2010 - 9:50 pm
Although several reviews have already mentioned this, I just want to reiterate the point. I dislike this book and the reason is simply for the fact that it is riddled with difficult/impossible to read screenshots. I regret buying the book because at the end of the day it is simply unpleasant to look at and read.
What a shame – because with readable screenshots this would be a great addition for anyone wanting to learn drupal!
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by William Slaughter on July 5, 2010 - 12:49 am
As an absolute beginner with Drupal I found this book to be lacking in providing the background information necessary prior to jumping in and going through screens. The confusion between the two versions of Drupal (6.x and 7.x) added to the difficulty in understanding what the author was attempting to convey.
This is my first Drupal book and I do not have another reference to use in a comparison. I will continue to plod through the text and see if at some point it begins to make sense.
My goal is a corporate site that allows the collection and reporting of information from staff members in a MySql data base. With all the concentration in the book on ’social’ sites it makes me wonder if this it the right product for my purposes.
Thanks.
Bill Slaughter
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by J. Braun on July 5, 2010 - 1:36 am
This book is amazingly hard to read because of the font and image choices. The publisher has chosen a font that is 20% smaller (80% em) than what O’Reilly uses for their books. Yes, I got out a ruler and measured it. Subjectively It also seems that the ink is not a true black but a dark grey but I could be wrong about that.
What I am not wrong about is the screen shots. They’re unreadable! So small that you need a microscope to read the text in the fields and printed in pale shades of grey that make it even worse. This is a miserable experience.
So far as the content is concerned it’s pretty good but it gets confused by trying to explain both version 6 and version 7 without a clear delineation when switching between the two. Maybe it’s just the crummy printing that makes it so hard to read that makes it so confusing.
There may be better books on Drupal, any of them would be easier to read!
Rating: 2 / 5