Drupal for Designers

✍ Scribed by Dani Nordin

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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...

✦ Table of Contents

Getting StartedLesson 1. Getting to Know the WorkspaceLesson 2. The Pages, States and Layers Panels - Fundamental workflow toolsLesson 3. Working with Bitmap ImagesLesson 4. Working with SelectionsLesson 5. Working with Vector objectsLesson 6. MaskingLesson 7. Working with TextLesson 8. Optimizing for the WebLesson 9. Using SymbolsLesson 10. Prototyping Basics Lesson 11. Advanced PrototypingLesson 12. Improving your workflowLesson 13. Going Further