Drupal 6 Site Blueprints Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: I.M. Smart, Ph.D.—Building a Personal Site
Chapter 2: Verree High School—Building a School Site
Chapter 3: Global Hitchhikers Club—Building an Aficionado's Site
Chapter 4: Breaking Events—Building an Events Site
Chapter 5: Drupbook—Building a Community Site
Chapter 6: The Daily Drupe–Building a Newspaper Site
Chapter 7: Dridgets Inc.—Building an E-commerce Site
Chapter 8: Drupelburg Accommodations—Building a Directory Site
Chapter 9: Nosh'r—Building a Photo Sharing Site
Chapter 10: Drupelburg Conference Venues—Building a Conference Facilities Booking Site
Chapter 11: Alienspotting—Building a Google Map Site
Chapter 12: Weird Hap'nins—Building a News Aggregating Site
Appendix A: Installation and Configuration
Appendix B: Optimizing your Site
Appendix C: Themes and Modules
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: I.M. Smart, Ph.D.—Building a Personal Site
  • Theme
  • Build I.M. Smart's site
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
  • Basic content
    • Create a new Content type
    • Categorize content
    • Test the submission form
    • Images
    • Create the About Me page
    • Create Blog posts
    • Create a Publication
    • Create a Contact form
  • Display content
    • Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module
    • Menus
    • Latest blog posts
  • Permissions
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Verree High School—Building a School Site
  • Theme
  • Build the Verree High School site
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
    • Enable modules
    • Configure the Webform module
    • Configure the File uploads module
  • Create the Downloads Content type
  • Handle attachments and images
  • Test the Downloads submission form
  • Create a Webform
    • Create Name field
    • Create an Email field
    • Create a Gender field
    • Create the Date of Birth field
    • Create the Interest field
    • View the Form
  • Display content
    • Downloads summary Page
    • Create Menus
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Global Hitchhikers Club—Building an Aficionado's Site
  • Theme
  • Build the Global Hitchhikers Club site
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
  • Basic content
    • User settings
    • User profile
      • Name
      • Date of Birth
      • Gender
    • Configure the Blog entry Content type
    • Images
    • Create new categories
    • Add new terms
    • Test the Blog submission form
  • Display content
    • Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module
    • Quick searching
    • Menus
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Breaking Events—Building an Events Site
  • Theme
  • Build the Breaking Events site
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
    • Enable modules
  • Basic content
    • Configure the Events module
      • Event overview
      • Time zone handling
      • Date and time
    • Configure the Notification module
    • Configure the Event Content type
    • Images
  • Create new categories
  • Test the Event submission form
  • Display content
    • Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module
    • Menus
    • Calendar and Upcoming events blocks
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Drupbook—Building a Community Site
  • Theme
  • Build Drupbook
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
  • Basic content
  • User settings
    • Name
    • Date of Birth
    • Gender
    • Faculty
    • About Me
  • Configure the Blog entry Content type
    • Images
    • Test the Blog submission form
  • Configure Polls
  • Configure Forums
  • Configure Chat
  • Configure Organic groups
    • Create new Group Content type
    • Create a Group
  • Put it all together
    • Front page
    • Menus
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: The Daily Drupe–Building a Newspaper Site
  • Theme
  • Build The Daily Drupe online
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
  • Categorize content
  • Create new Content types
    • Create new categories
    • Test the submission form
    • Images
  • Display content
    • Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module
  • Forums
  • The lead story block
  • The latest editorial block
  • The latest features block
  • The latest news block
  • Front page
  • Editorial and User login blocks
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Dridgets Inc.—Building an E-commerce Site
  • Theme
  • Build the Dridgets Inc. web shop
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
  • Basic Ubercart configurations
    • Image configurations
    • Basic Store settings
    • Country settings
    • Payment settings
    • Store settings
    • Shipping quote settings
    • Image handling
  • Add a Product to the store
    • Have we done this right?
  • Display Products
    • Front page
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Drupelburg Accommodations—Building a Directory Site
  • Theme
  • Build Drupelburg Accommodations
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
  • Basic content
    • Images
    • Create new Content type
    • Create new categories
    • List categories
    • Add terms
    • Test the Houses for Rent submission form
    • Create postings
  • Display content
    • Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module
    • Blocks
    • Front Panels
    • Search
    • Permissions
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Nosh'r—Building a Photo Sharing Site
  • Theme
  • Build Nosh'r
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
    • Configure the Fivestar module
  • Basic content
    • Create Images and galleries
      • Configure the Image Content type
      • Create the Image galleries
      • Image Taxonomies
    • Test the Image submission form
  • Display content
    • Create quick menus with the Taxonomy Menu module
    • Latest Image block
    • Site navigation
      • Create the Menu for Continent and Galleries page views
      • Assign the Gallery to the front page
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Drupelburg Conference Venues—Building a Conference Facilities Booking Site
  • Theme
  • Build Drupelburg Conference Venues
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
    • Configure the Availability Calendars module
    • Configure the Fivestar module
  • Basic content
    • Create a new Content type
    • Images
    • Test the Venue submission form
    • Edit the Availability Calendar
  • Display content
    • Quick searching
    • Other pages
    • Menus
  • Login and Navigation blocks
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Alienspotting—Building a Google Map Site
  • Theme
  • Build Alienspotting
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
    • Enable modules
    • Configure GMap
      • GMap Location
    • Configure Location
  • Basic content
    • Configure the Story Content type
      • Number of locations
    • Collection settings
    • Display settings
    • Images
    • Test the Story submission form
  • Display content
    • Node locations
    • Recent comments
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: Weird Hap'nins—Building a News Aggregating Site
  • Theme
  • Build Weird Hap'nins
  • Modules
    • Optional Core modules
    • Contributed modules
    • Configure the Poormanscron module
    • Configure the Aggregator module
  • Basic content
    • Add feeds
  • Display the feeds
    • Newsfeed blocks
    • Create the front page post
    • Menus
  • Finishing up
  • Summary

• Appendix A: Installation and Configuration
  • Install on a local computer
    • Installation on Wampserver
    • Install Drupal 6 on localhost
  • Install Drupal on a remote server
  • Other installation possibilities
  • Configuration and backend administration
    • Site information
    • Theme settings

• Appendix B: Optimizing your Site
  • Page cache
    • Minimum cache lifetime
    • Page compression
  • Block cache
  • Bandwidth optimizations
    • Optimize CSS files
    • Optimize JavaScript files
    • Clear cached data
  • Other optimization techniques
    • Throttle
    • Boost
    • Advanced cache

• Appendix C: Themes and Modules

• Index

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