Leveraging Drupal
Getting Your Site Done Right
Chapter One
Keeping It Simple
"Keep It Simple" is really a synonym for "Get a Grip."
If you are reading this book, you probably have some degree of responsibility in getting a website
application up and running. If you are reading this chapter and you are searching for a series of
steps you can actually assimilate and follow toward fulfilling that goal, then you are in the right
place.
First of all, in a software project (and because of its complexity, that is what a website application
is), you are either controlled by circumstances or you succeed - but only if you can maintain your
grip on things. That's only if, after receiving all the advice, you are able to fashion your own means
of zooming into detail, return to the overview, keep it going, and know at all times where your
bookmarks are ... and if you can pilot the process of each layer making up the project, on every
front: the purpose, the design, the usability, the navigation, the function, the data, the push ... read full excerpt from: Leveraging Drupal: Getting Your Site Done Right ebook