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Packt Publishing has announced the first book on Drupal 6, titled Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6, which is an update to their bestselling "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites", written by David Mercer. This is a description from the publisher:

This book meets the booming demand for well presented, clear, concise, and above all practical information on how to move from knowing you want a website all the way through to designing and building it like a pro, and finally successfully managing and maintaining it.

Experienced technical author David Mercer expertly guides the reader through all the stages of building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner. Aimed in particular at beginners to Drupal, this book will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any problem with confidence.

Packt Publishing will donate 5% of the proceeds of this book to the Drupal Association. The book will be released in February 2008 and is available with a 20% pre-order discount on their website. Packt are also still on the lookout for a cover image for this book, so if you're a keen photographer and would like to see one of your original images on the cover of this new book, send them a snap! More details about that can be found here: http://www.packtpub.com/article/submit-book-cover-images.

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trogie commented

Hehe, a few weeks after the other book 'themes for drupal 5'. But anyway: ordered! :-)

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StevenSokulski commented

Here's to hoping the themeing book is updated soon....real soon. I want it, but not when its going to be within a months of being outdated by the time i get it....

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lolfreeman commented

Drupal 6 RC1 released :(

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pcmeissner commented

Take a look at the cover.

Drupal 6
Create Powerful Websites Quickly and Quietly

I never stopped to consider my noise level when I built a website. Maybe I should start. Am I missing something?

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MickeK commented

No swearing?

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mikey_p commented

http://drupal.org/node/77487

Please note, that was published before this book was announced.

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litwol commented

great find.

Sometimes something interesting appears on http://litwol.com

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Nick Lewis commented

Shhhhhh!!!!!!
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marcrobinsone commented

Looks like this will be deliciously yummy. Can't wait!

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mrbert commented

Great news to the community.

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Mgccl commented

What if Drupal 6 doesn't release till like... January? David Mercer surely have a nice deadline...
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FabriceV commented

I have just read the table of content. This new version seems to mainly focus on the core functionalities. Possibly not a bad approach. But the previous version was so superficially worked, that I am not sure at all to believe anymore to buy this updated version. Wait and see...

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themegarden.org commented

Take a look at: Who this book is written for (from Packt Publishing)
"This book is for people with little or no experience in website design, people who are not familiar with PHP, MySQL or HTML, and above all people with little to no experience in using Drupal. Even intermediate Drupal users will find this book of interest although it is specifically aimed at pushing beginners up the learning curve."

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FabriceV commented

I have never stated here or previously that the previous book was bad... But it is superficially written, as also pointed out by other comments. It is not just a matter of information. Look at the original comments, I am not the only one that remarked it. Hope that the author has worked the style and the content.

http://drupal.org/node/66199

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proxiss commented

If it points out the differences between 5 and 6 - I am on it!
If it's just another web-2-book writedown - I prefer reading drupal.org :-)
At least the title is a miracle ...

Anyway - it's high-time for more good books on drupal!

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danaktivix commented

Recently bought a copy of pro drupal development: a fantastic book - I'm really baffled as to how anyone ever learned to develop Drupal without it!

I wonder, will there be a 6 version? And might the authors make the ebook version available to us poor souls who recently bought 5? (I can ask...!)

Dan

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JohnForsythe commented

I don't have any inside info, but I'd be willing to bet a v6 edition will come out. It's the best Drupal book out there, and updating it for Drupal 6 is a no-brainer.

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clivesj commented

I was in Borders the other day, browsing the catalog looking for "drupal" just to be sure nobody wrote a drupal-book without telling me.

Then I saw a Drupal-6 book anounced to be published april 2008 bij Angie Byron (webchick).

Maybe she could eleborate what we can expect?

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add1sun commented

Lullabot is writing a book for O'Reilly and it will cover how to build different kinds of sites using contributed modules along with the basics of core. Here was our original announcement: http://www.lullabot.com/blog/were_writing_oreilly_drupal_book (but note that the title will be different, since someone else has already snagged the Practical Drupal title. We need to rename ours so stay tuned.)

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eli03 commented

Looking forward to reading it!. Great!
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The book I'm writing (along with my fellow Lullabots Addison Berry, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, Jeff Robbins, and James Walker) is a book that will be published by O'Reilly probably sometime mid-2008 (exact title still TBD). It's a hands-on, recipe-style book that will show people how to build various projects like a wiki, a photo gallery, etc. by using CCK and Views, and combining them with various other contributed modules. We're about halfway finished with the first draft. Yeehaw!

There is also a book on amazon.com and other places called "Drupal Instant Results" which /says/ it is by me, but in fact is not, and actually probably doesn't even exist. :\ When we were floating the idea of the book to a few different publishers, one of them ended up entering it into their system and it got propagated out to various places. And yes, I've asked the publisher to fix it. Hopefully they will soon, before people start pre-ordering it. :(

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waynedrupal commented

hands-on, recipe-style book that will show people how to build various projects like a wiki, a photo gallery, etc. by using CCK and Views, and combining them with various other contributed modules

I will definately be interested in purchasing this book if it goes into detail about CCK and Views. One request that I have (seems I read that many have looked for also) is how to build a directory style listing like DMOZ. Would you perhaps be including how to build such a project as this in your book?

I am looking forward to this book coming out!!! Sound like it has great potential for practical examples with CCK and Views!!!

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lleach commented

I bought the first Packt Drupal book written by David Mercer. I found it very interesting and amusing that Mercer was able to write a book about Drupal that didn't need a N section in the book's index. Can you think of any data structure in Drupal that starts with the letter N? I hope the next offering is a bit more complete.

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highermath commented

I couldn't think of nodething...

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2ndmile commented

Why doesn't Lullabot (or anybody) just start offering small 50 page eBooks on its site for a $3-$4 download. Each mini-book could cover different topics in depth about all the things that people are asking about. CCK, View, Theming. Then the books could be updated as needed.

This 6 month lead time on published books is the reason the internet is so great. In 6 months, Drupal 7 will be in release candidate with a complete rewrite of the code and all the current books (that haven't been released) will be out-of-date.... hehe!

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Steven_NC commented

That would be my vote.

It must be tough to write a book before official release of v6 knowing that v7 will be in the works. I would rather get it online where the author can use video. I find the video tutorials so much better.

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verbidei commented

I can't imagine a better way to develop excitement for Drupal and the community, especially in encouraging novice users (like myself) to try out a newer version. Even if it's stand-alone chapters from a forthcoming book, that would be great. For example, I'm maintaining a Drupal 5 site, but am in the process of building a Drupal 6 site and would easily shell out a few bucks on a chapter-length eBook that covers theming (specifically CSS-only) for 6.
Great idea. I've got my PayPal account ready....

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venkat-rk commented

Absolutely with you. Ebooks would probably be easier to update too. The copyright for the work would always be in Lullabot's (or whoever does it) control instead of the big publishers and they could still donate a % to the Drupal Association.

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doubleedgedpen commented

I'm ready to pay for short, good quality, eBooks that deal with one task, module, or project at a time.

For me, the hardest part of getting started with my Drupal website was the lack of directions or a tutorial that could tell me the best way to accomplish something the right way from start to finish.

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saidi commented

Ordred! 2008 DRUPAL year

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sherifmayika commented

can be read here
http://dreamweaverdrupalthemeextension.blogspot.com/2008/01/drupal-5-the...

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mythos07 commented

Is there any New Drupal Book 7? I already had 1-6.

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hanzahar commented

is it worth to get this book as it seems i'm too late and drupal 7 is coming out soon

hey how to make this post emailed when someone replied -_-"

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JohnForsythe commented

I don't we'll be seeing Drupal 7 sites for at least a year, so I'd say go for it.

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lluser commented

Don't buy this book!
It's total waste of time... I don't know for who this book is. Majority of its content are screenshots of admin area and instructions how to do different things... nothing about theme development... Waste of time & money, buyers beware!