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- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- + Introduction
- + Chapter 1. Some Things to Remember About Working with Drupal
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Part I. Discovery and User Experience
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Chapter 2. Setting the Stage—Discovery and User Experience
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Chapter 3. User Experience—Techniques for
Drupal
- User Personas
- User Flows
- Mind Mapping
- Functional Breakdowns
- Screen Sketches and Wireframes
- Content Strategy Documents
- Low-Fidelity Prototypes
- Functional Specifications
- + Paper Prototypes
- Non-HTML Digital Prototypes
- HTML or Drupal Prototypes
- UX Techniques and Drupal: Some Practical Issues
- A Further Note on Documents
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Chapter 4. Putting It in Practice—A Short-Form Project Brief
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Chapter 2. Setting the Stage—Discovery and User Experience
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Part II. Sketching, Visual Design, and
Layout
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Part III. Setting Up a Local Development
Environment
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Chapter 8. The Drupal Designer’s Coding Toolkit
- + Chapter 9. Installing Drush
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Chapter 10. Getting Started with Git
- Master Versus Origin
- Setting Up Git for Your Workflow
- Step 1: Create an SSH Key
- Step 2: Install Git
- Step 3: Set Up Your Git Configuration
- Step 4: Set Up a GitHub Account
- Step 5: Create the Remote Repository
- Step 6: Set Up the Local Repository
- So, What Happens on a Team?
- First Things First: The Git Workflow
- And There We Go
- + Chapter 11. Putting It in Practice—Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal
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Chapter 8. The Drupal Designer’s Coding Toolkit
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Part IV. Prototyping in Drupal
- + Chapter 12. Prototyping in Drupal
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Chapter 13. Choosing Modules
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Chapter 14. Making Views Sing—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: Get Profile Content into the Event Page
- Step 6: Set Up the Contextual Filter
- Step 7: Set Up the Related Events Block
- So, What Did We Just Do Here?
- + Chapter 15. Making Views Sing—Controlling Views Markup
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Chapter 16. Getting Started with Drupal Theming: Base and Child
Themes
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Chapter 17. Making CSS Easier with LESS
- + Part V. Making It Easier to Start Projects
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Part VI. Working with Clients
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Part VII. Sample Documents
- + Appendix A. Project Brief
- + Appendix B. Work Agreement (with Professional Relationship Clause)
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Appendix C. Project Proposal
- Project Proposal
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Section 1.0: Project Background and Objectives
- Objective 1: Build upon the history of the Founder’s experience with her prior firms to effectively position The Consulting Firm as a leader in environmental compliance information and consulting for technology products.
- Objective 2: Create a blogging and social media engagement strategy that allows the Founder to more firmly establish thought leadership in the field.
- Objective 3: Create a website that will serve as a marketing vehicle for The Consulting Firm, and integrate the Founder’s content leadership efforts.
- + Section 2.0: Statement of Work
- + Section 3.0: Development Process
- Section 4.0: Budget Estimate
- + Section 5.0: The Zen Kitchen Background and Capabilities
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Section 6.0: Terms and Conditions
- Index
Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to- goodness, developer Ninja Magick.
This book is a compilation of three short guides--Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers--plus exclusive "director's material." If you're familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal's learning curve, this is the book you've been looking for.
Get extra material, including an expanded Grids chapter, more recommended modules, and a Short Form Project plan
Learn how to work user-centered design practices into Drupal projects
Choose the right modules for your project, and discover several go-to modules
Use strategies for sketching, wireframing, and designing effective layouts
Manage Drupal's markup, including code generated by the powerful Views module
Learn how to work with Drupal on the command line
Set up your development environment and collaborate with other designers and developers
Learn the basics of Git, the free open source version control system
Test the closed alpha on paperc.com
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Computers > Web > Page Design
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Publication year : 2012
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 341
