Issue Table of Contents

Downloading Drupal is easy; but then what? Tom explores the Drupal knowledge gap and tells you where to get the answers you need.

A complete study of object- oriented programming would fill this magazine; Larry gives us a firm grounding in the concepts and syntax of OOP in just a few pages.

What does the adoption of third-party PHP code mean for Drupal 8? As release day nears, even newbies can try it out, test it, and report bugs.

Drupal creator and project lead, Dries tells the fascinating story of Drupal distributions — from their origins in the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign — and explains why distributions matter.

How to craft your own custom distribution — in this case one that could serve as a starting point for building new web sites. And while you’re at it, why not share it with the Drupal community?

Chef Rosemary starts with simple ingredients and whips up a smorgasbord of easy recipes, perfectly suited for hungry nonprofit websites.

Online Drupal platforms offer plenty of great options to help both beginners and experienced developers get up and running effortlessly.

Enterprise-level software for dedicated customer relationship management is being supplanted or supplemented by CRM- capable websites; an overview of this native Drupal answer to CiviCRM.

Whether you’re a MacGyver or a MacGruber, Drush (DRUpal + SHell) may be your perfect, handy-dandy, all- purpose tool. Part 1.

Although Views (soon to be merged into Drupal 8) will perform myriad tasks — like relating data to other data, sorting, filtering, etc. — it can also rewrite fields.

Insider tips on locating the most experienced and collaborative Drupal contractors and companies -- with the chops to build your dream website.

To accompany his first column in the Drupal performance series -- Content Delivery Networks -- Jeff recommends an Ethiopian Sidamo, served as a cappuccino. Drink up.

In this installment, our Farmischt Freelancer tracks down the source of errant text on a Drupal website and promptly exiles it to mishigas purgatory.

Presto! With a few easy-to-master magic tricks, the clutter of irritating CSS classes that you wish would go away and die...goes away and dies.

In her inaugural DW column, Melissa simplifies the daunting first steps for incorporating functional testing and Behavior Driven Development in the creation and maintenance of Drupal sites.

Doug applies aesthetic brushstrokes and cool sculpting tools to transform common Drupal PHP mistakes and merely-acceptable design patterns into Drupl’Art. Voilà.

Downloading Drupal is easy; but then what? Tom explores the Drupal knowledge gap and tells you where to get the answers you need.