New Drupal Book : Drupal 6 Site Blueprints

Bad news is always good news for the press. And so Vaughan Pyre has decided to take advantage of this and create a web site that will aggregate bad news and weird happenings from all over the world. The content of the site will be entirely derived from RSS feeds from several sources; each feed being automatically fetched and its items displayed as individual articles on the web site. Vaughan's intention is to create a lot of self-updating web sites which he intends to populate with Google ads for site users to click and click so that he can make a lot of money.
Weird Hap’nins requirements will be the need to:
1. Get external feed sources and allocate them to categories on the web site.
2. Obtain and display Google ads on all pages of his web site

This is the fictitious brief from which Weird one of the project tutorials from the book Drupal 6 Site Blueprints , was created. If you are new to building web site with Drupal and you consequently imagine that Drupal is difficult to use, this book should make you do a rethink. The briefs are wickedly humorous , the tutorial are quite concise and lavishly illustrated with screen shots and the projects are very useful day to day applications.

Drupal 6 Site Blueprints is aimed at Drupal users in the following categories :
Students - Seeking hands-on experience in building useful PHP based web projects, by using a rapid development environment.
Hobbyists - Looking to build rich web applications either for personal business use or for their clubs or society.
Business owners - who would like to test the Drupal platform and to see if it meets their immediate and future business needs for a web application.
Professionals- who will like to quickly present the prototype of a new web project to their client within a short period

About the book
Drupal 6 Site Blueprints , is a project- based guide to developing web applications with Drupal. It should enable you to take full advantage of the powerful core features offered by the Drupal framework together with the many available contributed modules and themes to develop killer applications within hours. You will learn, by means of illustrated hands-on example projects, all that you need to build with Drupal. Containing 12 exciting and simple web projects, this book will enable you to rapidly implement web projects for personal and business use - without having to pay a developer to do it for you. If you want to develop exciting web applications for profit or pleasure this book is for you. With Drupal 6 Site Blueprints almost anyone with just a bit of Drupal knowledge can build a complicated web site by mixing the individual projects together. Instant Drupal !

To have a feel of what Drupal 6 Site Blueprints looks like, you may get a free tutorial for the project Weird Hap’nins here. All the other hands-on example projects in this book are also based on fictitious website development briefs, but they illustrate practical ways of applying Drupal. The projects in the book include :
1: Building a Personal Web Site
2: Building a School Web Site
3: Building an Aficionados’ Site
4: Building an Events Site
5: Building a Community Portal
6: Building a Newspaper Site
8: Building a Directory
9: Building a Photo sharing Site
10: Building a Hotel and Conference Facilities Booking Site
11: Building a Googlemap Site
12: Building a News Aggregating Site
This book is for anybody who wants to build a range of Drupal sites, and see how to apply the many available Drupal plugins and features in different scenarios. If you develop Drupal sites professionally, or would like to try building web sites as a freelancer, this is a great book to help you get started.Drupal 6 Site Blueprints has just been published, and is available direct from the publishers. Order here

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About the author
Timi Ogunjobi is a Technical Writer, Web Developer and Open Source evangelist. Trained as an engineer, Timi has been developing web applications in several frameworks for more than 7 years and has also been writing for more than a decade on a wide variety of topics. Timi is the principal of Websesame - www.websesame.com, a software development and Technical writing company . Timi’s other Drupal books include Adventures in Drupal and Drupal Website Models. Timi balances his time between programming, reviewing, writing, and contributing to interesting web-based projects and African community projects. When he isn't working (which isn't that often) he enjoys playing jazz guitar and getting involved in outdoor activities principally cricket, golf and swimming.