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Drupal Video Tutorial Sites: Build A Module and Drupalize.me

Many folks interested in Mastering Drupal are looking for videos.

I decided not to create a full screencast series as part of this site, but our team is still producing videos periodically and making them available for free. However, since this site was started there have been two new companies launched that offer Drupal vides.

BuildAModule.com - Drupal videos by Chris Shattuck

Chris Shattuck, a really great person and competent Drupal developer/themer/site builder, created BuildAModule.com. This site has tons of videos broken down into short, digestable chunks. If you need to learn one specific thing you can watch just that video. They are also thoroughly screencasts: you see Chris' screen. He's great at using on-screen tools to highlight his mouse and the item he is working on so you can follow along.

The pricing is very reasonable between $23 and $29/month for online options or $29 to $399 for his DVDs. Note that his DVDs are actually full of video files for playing on your computer meaning that they are much longer than "DVD" might imply.

Drupalize.me from Lullabot

And of course a second option is Drupalize.me from the Lullabots. They have combined their tutorial videos, DiWD videos, and some site-specific videos to create a large library with a diverse set of presenters.

This creates for an interesting presentation of content because it mixes up medium length purpose focused material like "how to theme in Drupal" with a presentation style instruction where you might not be able to see the screen but the presenter themself might be more interesting.

Pricing on Drupalize.me varies from $35/month to $45/month depending on your commitment.

What do you think? Do you subscribe to either one of these sites? Are you getting videos from somewhere else?


Improving User Experience with Recommendations e-book

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Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

If you've ever seen a list such as “Popular News Stores,” “Customers who bought this item also bought” or “Other stories by this author,” then you're familiar with the idea of related and recommended content, and the value these recommendations can add for website visitors. They also add value for site owners, since suggestions (and especially good suggestions) of additional content make people more likely to stay on your site for longer, view more pages, and buy more products.


Monetizing Your Site e-book

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Written by: 
Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

Whether you're looking for a new way to generate income or just trying to cover the costs of operating a website, you've probably wondered how your site will make money with its valuable content. In this chapter, we'll explore several different ways of generating income using external services like Google AdSense and Amazon.com's affiliate program, as well as self-contained systems for selling ads and charging to view and post content.

Contents

  • Context-Sensitive ads with Google AdSense
  • Building a self-contained ad selling system
  • Online classifieds: Paying to post
  • Subscription only Content
  • Summary

Technical Introduction to Drupal e-book

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Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

This e-book will be available in December 2010 for FREE!

Drupal is a modular system. By breaking up responsibilities into different parts, such as modules, distinct parts of Drupal are responsible for different aspects of your site's functionality. Providing individual user accounts and passwords, displaying forms, storing and displaying content are all examples of discrete functionality. Similar to how different parts of the brain come together to provide our overall mental function, the components responsible for these pieces of functionality communicate with one another and all come together to make up an interactive website.

This book will provide a technical overview of Drupal.


Introduction to Drupal e-book (free)

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Written by: 
Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

Drupal is an open source content management software tool used by individuals, news and publishing companies, world government organizations, major record companies, and nonprofit organizations that allow people to build websites, publish content such as text, video and pictures and communicate with one another.

This free PDF can be downloaded instantly after checkout.


Mastering Images and Galleries e-book

$5.00
Written by: 
Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

Images are a critical part of modern websites, especially in the publishing world. Whether you are adding more depth to the “about us” page on a basic site, creating image galleries or have a photography blog, Drupal is equipped to power your site.

This PDF can be downloaded instantly after purchase.


Creating sessions and a schedule with COD

COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution for Drupal, is an easy and streamlined way to build powerful event websites. The recent release of COD Alpha 2 comes with a Views-powered schedule and many other great features.

In this quick screencast we'll build a single day, two-track conference using the COD Session feature.

Length: 
4 minutes

Smart Landing Pages with Panels e-book

$5.00
Written by: 
Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

Panels makes it relatively easy to integrate your Drupal site's content into dynamic landing pages with customized layouts.

This PDF can be downloaded instantly after purchase. Download the Features file that provides essential assets.


Mastering Views e-book

$5.00
Written by: 
Ezra Barnett Gildesgame and Greg James Knaddison

The Views module addresses a common need for people with a website full of content: displaying that content without having programming knowhow.

Views is one of the most innovative and important Contributed modules, empowering site administrators to easily create complex displays of content, and has changed the way developers build their modules.

This PDF can be downloaded instantly after purchase.


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Drupal Tutorials

When you're learning Drupal it can be really helpful to read how other people have accomplished the same thing that you're trying to do.

Drupal Tutorial and recipes handbook

The Drupal.org Tutorials handbook is a great resource. It contains hundreds of pages showing how to do all sorts of different things.

Learning from Drupal Case Studies

Another great tool is the Case Studies where people explain how they built a specific site.

Similarly, the recipes area is full of great tips for how to make Drupal achieve certain features.


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