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Learning Drupal 8

You're reading from   Learning Drupal 8 Create complex websites quickly and easily using the building blocks of Drupal 8, the most powerful version of Drupal yet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168751
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction 2. Installation FREE CHAPTER 3. Basic Concepts 4. Getting Started with the UI 5. Basic Content 6. Structure 7. Advanced Content 8. Configuration 9. Users and Access Control 10. Optional Features 11. Reports 12. Extending Drupal 13. Theming Drupal 14. Getting Support Index

Free cloud hosting

Acquia is a company founded by the creator of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, which specializes in Drupal. Pantheon is another company which specializes in Drupal. Both of these offer a free sandbox hosting for Drupal.

https://www.acquia.com/free and https://www.getpantheon.com are cloud offerings which allow you to host and develop a Drupal 8 site on a hosted Internet-based web server. Both services offer a one-click install of Drupal. If you choose to use one of these, you can skip directly now to the section entitled Installing Drupal 8.

Acquia Dev Desktop

Acquia offers a free local development environment for Windows and Mac called Acquia Dev Desktop that you can download and install on your own local machine in order to run Drupal 8 in the shortest possible time.

Download either the Windows or Mac version of the Acquia Dev Desktop from https://www.acquia.com/downloads and install it selecting the defaults for the various settings.

Once you have completed the installation, you...

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