Posted by dorien on January 28, 2009 at 9:43pm
UPDATE
The book has been updated to the latest modules and is also available as a paperback book on Amazon. The ebook has also been updated and is still available here.
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I thought you might be interested in the new ebook that has been published:
Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide.
With notes for Drupal 5
Now everyone can set up a community.
ISBN 978-2-8399-0490-2
Author: Dorien Herremans MSc MIS
More than 100 screenshots will guide the reader through the process of setting up a community site with the Drupal 5 or 6 framework. A number of popular topics, such as profiles, picture and video galleries, maps, messaging, groups, friends etc will be discussed.
More information at http://book.drupalfun.com
Comments
Wow
I guess you've just freed up the next couple months for me... Writing this is what I had planned. LOL
BTW, please don't post this multiple times. It's great that you did it but once is plenty.
Michelle
See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region
I'd still buy your book Michelle!
Although my purchase might not be deserving of 2 months of writing lol! But we appreciate all of your contributions and everything at socnet.
Lee
Obi-Wan (Lee Raney)
Dallas Drupal Group
www.Christian.com
Lee Raney
Dallas Drupal Group
www.ChurchFinder.com
Awww, thanks
I've decided I'm still going to write mine but I'm going to go back to my original plan on writing how to create a local community site. That will cover a lot of social networking features so may still be of interest. No worries on purchasing, though, as I'm not planning on charging for it.
Anyway, getting off topic here. I don't want to be hijacking the post. If anyone wants more info, you know where to find me... :)
Michelle
See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region
thanks Michelle... I'm very
thanks Michelle... I'm very much looking forward to what you put together as well... :)
Michelle
Hi Michelle,
I'm a newbie.
Just adding my 2 cents.
I would like to encourage you to write your book and charge for it.
There's nothing wrong with charging money for your book.
Just make sure it is well written and supported, just like code, and people will generally be happy to pay for it.
People don't work for free. It would make your job more worthwhile.
cheers
Ed
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Warm Welcome to this book :)
Though Drupal currently has splendid and innumerable handbook pages,unfortunately not advertised like printed books and also some really helpful tutorials for social or community web, many by Michelle, I think some people will "need" to have a book on their racks or desktop.
Personally I will be interested to know if this book provides cookbook-like codes or snippets to overcome the many existing difficulties in making 'true-type' social/community web with drupal namely
I wish :) the book offers something really new than already that is there to users like me.
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If someone has pre-viewed or have any idea in any way it will ne nice if they can post a comparison of the above book with this book http://www.packtpub.com/build-social-networking-website-with-drupal-6/book, and which of the two really provides solution to the list above, particularly Social Apps.
Hi, I can't compare with the
Hi, I can't compare with the other book, since that has not been released yet.
I can tell you that the main strategy of the book is to put together a social networking site, using only existing modules. We do not make any code changes to the modules themselves. There are however, a handful of code snippets (for use in blocks, views headers, empty text,...) given to customise certain things. What comes to mind right now are:
- displaying default avatars
- the "what can I do right now" block
- related nodes
-...
The entire book is based around http://drupalfun.com. If you want to get a glimps of the features discussed in the book, take a look there. You can also find a detailed table of contents at http://book.drupalfun.com
The book could be extremely useful in saving time, figuring everything out. Beginners can start right away with their site. And I have already got comments from experienced Drupal developers, who claim the book has saved them a lot of time.
If you buy through the affiliate link at http://drupal.org/node/367131, the Drupal Association will get 10% of your purchase.
Greetings!
Hi
I am currently buidling a nework site using the Ultimate community Site . I am working through the book at the moment.
I am attempting to start a group along with several online videos to show how to get around several difficult parts of the
book. The book overall is very good you do need to follow the instrucitons. This includes for example creating a module
directory and not using the root module directory in Drupal..
Once our site is built we plan to go ahead and release turn community sites for people. This means you will buy the book and have everythingi in place and ready to go. No programming no uploading of modules all turnkey for you. Our plan afterwords is to begin working on some customization modules.
Any part that you find hard to read or cannot do will be discussed and custom steps written for you to understand and implement.
Regards,
Charles Pisano
Charles Pisano
book is rather hard to follow...
with mentions of modules that don't exist... unclear step by step directions, etc. You have to go to the end of the chapter to see what modules you "might" need... instead of being walked through the process. Then go back to the instruction which sometimes lead you down the wrong path and leave you feeling frustrated, lost, etc.
It's only around $7 US... so for those of you who are not novices like I am, it should be a good buy. I'm still waiting on the other book to be published though.
Thanks for your comment. The
Thanks for your comment.
The "module download list", at the end of each chapter, is intended for clarification. Any optional modules, are marked "optional", so you know what is absolutely necessary.
I would be very curious to know which non-existing modules I mention.
As for the step-by-step instructions. I (and the Drupalfun community) offer free personal assistance at the question forum at http://drupalfun.com.
I would like to buy the book
I would like to buy the book but I am not so sure if the user galleries solution proposed there would work the way I want it. Can you please confirm that the solution in the book supports the following requirements:
1) Multiple galleries per user
2) Users have full control of their own galleries:
- create galleries
- delete galleries - VERY IMPORTANT: when a gallery is deleted, all images in it are AUTOMATICALLY deleted as well or as an alternative user cannot delete a gallery, which has images in it. Either way referential integrity MUST be preserved and there are no orphaned images left
3) Galleries/images are nodes and therefore easily exposed as pages of thumbnails with Views, which then can easily be added to the user profile pages.
Thanks!
Hi, The approach in the book
Hi,
The approach in the book easily allows for 2). The gallery is a node, so you can use Viewst to manipulate them (3)). Whilst I focus on only one gallery per user, there is a section which talks about how to slightly modify the approach to have multiple galleries per user.
Thanks!
Thanks!
The ultimate community site
The ultimate community site guide is the best drupal book I've come across. Finally, we've got an entire practical approach bundled in one book. It's the best 5.5 euros I've spent!
The second edition is just
The second edition is just out!