New Drupal Book Published: Building Powerful and Robust Websites with Drupal 6 by David Mercer

Given the success of David Mercer's first Drupal title for beginners, Packt has published a new and improved edition to go with the latest release of Drupal. The new book, still targetted at beginners and intermediates, builds on its predecessor to provide a steeper launching ramp for everyone who still feels they're not yet a pro.

Changes to the new version include:

  • Slimmed down writing, to provide faster flowing and more concentrated information
  • Updates to all the original text to reflect the enhanced features of D6
  • Vastly expanded the range of topics
  • Increased the depth and level of coverage for many topics

Despite the fact that I have cut out quite a bit of the old text and trimmed that which remained, the new version is over 330 pages. This gives you an idea of how much new material went into this edition in order to bring it up to speed with this most impressive of Drupal releases. This new book is as much an overhaul of the last as Drupal 6 is over Drupal 4.7.

I hope that this title will meet the following goals that I have personally set for it:

  1. To help lower the intellectual "price of admission" into the Drupal fan club

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