Drupal for Designers

Foreword;
Introduction;
A Caveat;
Focus on Drupal 7;
About the Case Studies;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
About the Author;
About the Reviewers;
Chapter 1: Some Things to Remember About Working with Drupal;
1.1 A Quick and Dirty Guide to DrupalSpeak;
1.2 Discussing Drupal with Clients;
1.3 Organizing Your Files;
1.4 Life Cycle of a Drupal Project;
1.5 Implementation Plans: Breaking Up Your Work;
1.6 And Now We Are Six;
Discovery and User Experience;
Chapter 2: Setting the Stage—Discovery and User Experience;
2.1 Discovery: Breaking Down the Project Goals;
2.2 Project Discovery;
2.3 User Experience: Framing the Design Challenge;
2.4 Bringing UX Design to an Embedded Team;
2.5 The Drupal Designer’s UX and Design Toolkit;
Chapter 3: User Experience—Techniques for Drupal;
3.1 User Personas;
3.2 User Flows;
3.3 Mind Mapping;
3.4 Functional Breakdowns;
3.5 Screen Sketches and Wireframes;
3.6 Content Strategy Documents;
3.7 Low-Fidelity Prototypes;
3.8 Functional Specifications;
3.9 Paper Prototypes;
3.10 Non-HTML Digital Prototypes;
3.11 HTML or Drupal Prototypes;
3.12 UX Techniques and Drupal: Some Practical Issues;
3.13 A Further Note on Documents;
Chapter 4: Putting It in Practice—A Short-Form Project Brief;
4.1 Real-World Example: The TZK Project Plan;
4.2 Go Deeper: User Experience and Project Management;
Sketching, Visual Design, and Layout;
Chapter 5: Sketch Many, Show One;
5.1 Style Tiles: A Way to Explore Multiple Design Ideas;
5.2 Design Layout: Covering All Your Bases;
Chapter 6: Working with Layout Grids;
6.1 Why Use a Grid?;
6.2 Grids in Wireframing;
6.3 Grids in Theming;
6.4 Anatomy of a Grid Layout;
6.5 Working with Square Grid;
6.6 But What About All These Presentational Classes? There Must Be a Better Way!;
6.7 The New CSS Grid Layout Module: The Future Is Now;
6.8 Going Deeper: CSS Layout and Grid Systems;
Chapter 7: Putting It in Practice—Setting Up Fireworks Templates for Drupal;
7.1 Step 1: Set Up the Grid;
7.2 Step 2: Set Up the Header;
7.3 Step 3: Create a Single Node Page Without a Sidebar;
7.4 Step 4: Create Single Node Pages with One and Two Sidebars;
7.5 Step 5: Create the Other Pages;
Setting Up a Local Development Environment;
Chapter 8: The Drupal Designer’s Coding Toolkit;
8.1 Wait, What? Why?;
8.2 A Note for Windows Users;
8.3 The Drupal Designer’s Coding Toolkit;
8.4 Working on the Command Line: Some Basic Commands;
Chapter 9: Installing Drush;
9.1 Installing Drush;
9.2 Another Option: Creating a Symbolic Link to Drush;
9.3 Now the Fun Begins;
Chapter 10: Getting Started with Git;
10.1 Master Versus Origin;
10.2 Setting Up Git for Your Workflow;
10.3 Step 1: Create an SSH Key;
10.4 Step 2: Install Git;
10.5 Step 3: Set Up Your Git Configuration;
10.6 Step 4: Set Up a GitHub Account;
10.7 Step 5: Create the Remote Repository;
10.8 Step 6: Set Up the Local Repository;
10.9 So, What Happens on a Team?;
10.10 First Things First: The Git Workflow;
10.11 And There We Go;
Chapter 11: Putting It in Practice—Setting Up a Local Development Environment and Installing Drupal;
11.1 Step 1: Install MAMP;
11.2 Step 2: Set Up Your Local File Structure;
11.3 Step 3: Set Up the Drupal Files;
11.4 Step 4: Set Up the Drupal Database;
11.5 Step 5: Install Drupal;
11.6 Step 6: Use Drush to Install Some Modules;
Prototyping in Drupal;
Chapter 12: Prototyping in Drupal;
12.1 Working with Content and Content Types;
12.2 Trial by Fire;
12.3 Working with Content Types: A High-Level Overview;
12.4 Organizing Your Content;
12.5 Putting It All Together;
Chapter 13: Choosing Modules;
13.1 So Many Modules; How Do I Choose?;
13.2 Go-To Modules;
13.3 Oh-So-Nice-to-Have Modules;
13.4 I Don’t Need This, but Ooh, It’s Purty! Modules;
13.5 A Completely Incomplete Listing;
Chapter 14: Making Views Sing—Using Views to Enhance a Layout;
14.1 But I’m Not a Developer—What If I Don’t Want to Code?;
14.2 Step 1: Create the “Event Categories” Taxonomy Vocabulary;
14.3 Step 2: Create the Event Content Type;
14.4 Step 3: Create an Image Style;
14.5 Step 4: Create the User Profile;
14.6 Step 5: Get Profile Content into the Event Page;
14.7 Step 6: Set Up the Contextual Filter;
14.8 Step 7: Set Up the Related Events Block;
14.9 So, What Did We Just Do Here?;
Chapter 15: Making Views Sing—Controlling Views Markup;
15.1 Step 1: Associate an Image with a Taxonomy Term;
15.2 Step 2: Create the Event Categories View;
15.3 Step 3: Update the Field Settings;
15.4 Step 4: Add a Custom Class to Each Taxonomy Term: Name Field;
15.5 Step 5: Style Away;
15.6 So, What Did We Just Do Here?;
Chapter 16: Getting Started with Drupal Theming: Base and Child Themes;
16.1 Breaking Down a Layout for a Drupal Implementation;
16.2 Choosing a Base Theme;
16.3 Creating a Child Theme;
16.4 Other Things You Should Know About Base Themes;
16.5 Please, Tell Me More!;
Chapter 17: Making CSS Easier with LESS;
17.1 Creating Variables;
17.2 The Mighty Mixin;
17.3 Nested Selectors and Styles;
17.4 Compiling the Code;
17.5 Working with LESS: Organizing Your Stylesheets;
17.6 Why LESS Is Awesome (Besides the Obvious);
17.7 Working with LESS on a Team;
Making It Easier to Start Projects;
Chapter 18: Using Features;
18.1 Still More Awesomeness Awaits;
Chapter 19: Working with Drush Make and Installation Profiles;
19.1 Step 1: Install Drush Make;
Working with Clients;
Chapter 20: Proposing and Estimating Projects;
20.1 Preproposal Discovery: What You Need to Know;
20.2 Pricing a Project: Fixed-Bid Versus Hourly;
20.3 Writing the Proposal;
Chapter 21: Getting Clients to Love You, Even When You Have to Tell Them “No”;
21.1 That’s Easy for You to Say ...;
21.2 The “Professional Relationship” Clause;
Chapter 22: After the Handoff—The Project Retrospective;
22.1 Including Clients in the Retrospective;
22.2 Documenting What You Learned;
22.3 Documenting for the Community;
Sample Documents;
Project Brief;
Hey There! It’s Nice to Meet You.;
Work Agreement (with Professional Relationship Clause);
Work Agreement;
Terms and Conditions;
Payment Notes;
Additional Terms;
Project Proposal;
Project Proposal;
Section 1.0: Project Background and Objectives;
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;
Section 6.0: Terms and Conditions;
Colophon;