Drupal for designers

Designers who work alone or in small teams and want to take on ambitious Drupal projects will find a practical toolkit here. Dani Nordin, an award-winning designer, explains how to plan a site, then shows how to build user-focused designs within the Drupal framework. The book also covers developer-side shortcuts known as Ninja Magick.

The book combines three shorter guides: Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers. It also includes exclusive "director's material." It is written for readers who already know HTML and CSS but find Drupal difficult to learn.

The topics include bringing user-centered design into Drupal projects, choosing modules and getting to know several go-to options, sketching, wireframing, and creating effective layouts, and managing the markup Drupal generates, including output from the Views module. Readers also learn to use Drupal from the command line, set up a development environment, work with other designers and developers, and use Git, the free open source version control system.

Extra material includes an expanded chapter on grids, more recommended modules, and a short-form project plan.