| Description |
1 online resource (168 pages) |
|
text file rda |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; In This Volume; A Quick Note on Nomenclature; A Note on Code; But Dani, I've Never Even Installed Drupal Before; What Do I Do?; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; About the Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Part I. Getting Started: Some Stuff to Consider; Chapter 1. Design for Drupal: Basic Concepts; About the Case Studies; Chapter 2. The Drupal Designer's Toolkit; Balsamiq Mockups; Fireworks; Coda; LessCSS and Less.app; Part II. Design and Layout; Chapter 3. Sketch Many, Show One. |
|
Ideation: Methods and MadnessChapter 4. Using Style Tiles to Explore Design Ideas; Chapter 5. Design Layout: Covering All Your Bases; Greyboxing: An In-Between Option; Chapter 6. Working with Layout Grids; Why Use a Grid?; Grids in Wireframing; Grids in Theming; Anatomy of a Grid Layout; But What About All These Presentational Classes? There Must Be a Better Way!; The New CSS Grid Layout module: The Future Is Now; Going Deeper: CSS Layout and Grid Systems; Chapter 7. Setting up Fireworks Templates for Drupal; Step One: Setting Up the Grid; Step Two: Setting Up the Header. |
|
Step 3: Single Node PageStep 4: Single Node Pages with Sidebars; Step 5: Create the Other Pages; Step 6: Step Up the Visuals; Part III. Prototyping, Theming, and Managing your Markup; Chapter 8. Paper Prototyping; When to Use a Paper Prototype; Fidelity; Creating a Paper Prototype; Walking Through the Prototype; Other Types of Prototypes; Chapter 9. Breaking Down a Layout for Drupal Implementation; Nodes; Blocks; Views; Chapter 10. Working with Base Themes; How to Choose a Base Theme; Other Base Themes to Try; Creating a Child Theme; Other Things You Should Know About Base Themes. |
|
Clear the Theme Registry!Working with Regions; Please, Tell Me More!; Chapter 11. Prototyping in the Browser; Chapter 12. Practical Example #1: Using Views to Enhance a Layout; But I'm Not a Developer--What if I Don't Want to Code?; Step 1: Create the "Event Categories" Taxonomy Vocabulary; Step 2: Create the Event Content Type; Step 3: Create an Image Style; Step 4: Create the User Profile; Step 5: Getting Profile Content into the Event Page; Setting Up the View; Step 6: Setting Up the Contextual Filter; Step 7: Setting Up the "Related Events" Block; So What Did We Just Do Here? |
|
Chapter 13. Practical Example #2: Controlling Views MarkupStep 1: Associating an Image with a Taxonomy Term; Step 2: Create the Event Categories View; Step 3: Update the Field Settings; Step 4: Add a Custom Class to Each Taxonomy Term: Name Field; Step 5: Style Away; So What Did We Just Do Here?; Chapter 14. Managing Your Code: Some Modules that Can Help; Block Class; HTML5 Tools and Elements; @font-your-face; Semantic Fields; Chapter 15. Working with LessCSS; Creating Variables; The Mighty Mixin; Nesting Behavior; Compiling the Code; Working with LessCSS: Organizing Your Stylesheets. |
| Summary |
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 reali. |
| Subject |
Drupal (Computer file)
|
|
Drupal (Computer file) |
|
Drupal (Computer file) |
|
Web site development.
|
|
Open source software.
|
|
Sites Web -- Développement. |
|
Logiciels libres. |
|
Open source software |
|
Web site development |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Nordin, Dani. Design and Prototyping for Drupal. Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, ©2011 9781449305505 |
| ISBN |
9781449325985 (electronic bk.) |
|
144932598X (electronic bk.) |
|
9781449325978 (electronic bk.) |
|
1449325971 (electronic bk.) |
|
(pbk.) |
|
(pbk.) |
|
More Resources