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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition

You're reading from   Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition You don't need to be a techie to build a community-based website for your school. With this guide to Drupal you'll be able to create an online learning and sharing space for your students and colleagues, quickly and easily.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162766
Length 390 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Drupal FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Drupal 3. Getting Started 4. Creating a Teacher Blog 5. Enrolling Students 6. Creating the Student Blog 7. Bookmarks 8. Podcasting and Images 9. Video 10. Forums and Blogs 11. Social Networks and Extending the User Profile 12. Supporting Multiple Classes 13. Tracking Student Progress 14. Theming and User Interface Design 15. Backup, Maintenance, and Upgrades 16. Working Effectively in the Drupal Community Index

Basic principles


Two basic principles will guide our design work:

  • Make things as simple as possible

  • Hide unnecessary options

Keeping it as simple as possible

If you look at the Google homepage at http://google.com, you won't see much.

And that's precisely the point. You're not presented with a huge number of options because the people designing that page have made some decisions about why people are navigating to http://google.com—they have arrived there to search. The screen is remarkably uncluttered. Nothing gets in the way of what the user is there to do: type in a search string, click on submit, and then browse away.

The minimalistic design—with a splash of color in the logo—supports the main activity people engage in at Google.

To look at it in another way, there is nothing on the page to distract or impede users from what they are there to do.

This brings us to the second main principle of creating an easily navigated site—hide unnecessary options.

Hiding unnecessary options

Frequently, people...

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