Drupal 8 for absolute beginners. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Barnett.
• Authors: Barnett, James
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Installing Drupal; Installing Acquia Dev Desktop; Installing Drupal 8; Configuring Drupal 8; Summary; Chapter 2: Site Building: Building Drupal Sites Without Programming; Setting a New Site Ti tle and Logo; Adding More Users to Your New Drupal site; Assigning Roles and Permissions to Site Users; Creating a Blog; Editing and Customizing Your Blog Post; Adding More Fields to Your Blog Node; Working with Blocks; Working with Views; Changing Your Site's Theme. Installing a Theme Using Dru sh (Preferred Method) Installing a Theme from a URL; Installing New Add-on Modules; Installing a Module Using Drush (Preferred Method); Installing a Modu le from a URL; Summary; Chapter 3: Getting Started with HTML; Creating Your First Web Page; Adding Comments to Your HTML; Working with Images; Creating Lists; Creating T ables; Adding Anchors; Creating Forms; Text Fields; Password Fields; Radio Buttons; Drop- do wns; Text Areas; "Submit" B uttons; All Together Now; Using Layout Elements; Summary. Chapter 4: Creating a Basic Drupal Module with HTML Output Working with the Drupal Docroot Directory; Creating a Basic Drupal Module; Looking at the Model, View, Controller Design Pattern; Showcasing Different HTML Elements Within the Drupal Module; Renaming a Module-and How to Create a Module Not Named "hello_world"; Summary; Chapter 5: A CSS Primer for Drupal; A Quick Look Back at the Limits of HTML; Styling Your Text with an External Style Sheet; Using and Tags; Commenting Your CSS; Creating Additional Styles; Choosing Between Classes and IDs. Working with Conflicting Styles Using Internal Style Sheets; Using Inline Styles; Understanding the Cascade Order; Working with Commonly Used CSS Styles; Text Styles; Fonts and Font Sizes; Links; Tables; Backgrounds; Positioning; Working with the CSS Box Model; Summary; Chapter 6: Adding CSS to Your Drupal Module; Using CSS Within Your ; Summary; Chapter 7: A JavaScript Primer for Drupal; Getting Started with JavaScript; Adding Basic JavaScript to a Web Page; Installing Firebug; Using Firebug; Modifying JavaScript Code; Working with JavaScript Programming Constructs. VariablesVariables as Integers/Numbers; Variables as Strings; Arrays; Objects; Booleans; Creating JavaScript Events; Using the jQuery Library; Using the jQuery Library with Events; Summary; Chapter 8: Adding JavaScript to Your Drupal Module; Adding JavaScript to Your Drupal Module; Summary; Chapter 9: A PHP Primer for Drupal; Verifying Your Installation of PHP; Serving Up a Hello World Web Page with PHP; Working with Some Basic PHP Code; Working with PHP Looping Structures; Using the foreach Loop ; Using the while Loop ; Printing to the Screen.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Apress
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 006.7; Computer science; Web site development; Web sites -- Design; Computer programming; Software engineering; COMPUTERS -- General; Web site development; Web sites -- Design; Computers -- Software Development & Engineering -- General; Software Engineering; Computers -- Web -- Web Programming; Web programming; Computer Science; Computer Science, general; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781430264675; 1430264675
• Related ISBNs: 9781430264668; 1430264667
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 2, 2015).
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