On Saturday 26 May 2007 05:18:12 Mitch Wander wrote:
Bruce,
Assuming paper books (old style) are an option, here are two choices.
If you're trying to quickly build a Drupal site from start to usable for site visitors try: Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites by David Mercer
If you know PHP and want to take advantage of Drupal's inner workings try: Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate
Best regards,
Mitch
There are actually five books out about Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/42200
For what Bruce is looking for, I would definitely not recommend "Pro Drupal Development". That is for advanced users and programmers, which is not what he's looking for.
Either "Building Websites with Drupal" or "Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress" might be okay, but they're aimed at people creating Drupal websites, not necessarily the people using them.
I don't know anything about "Practical Drupal: Evaluating and Using a Web Content Management System", to be able to classify what kind of person would benefit most from it, but based on the book description, it might be the best option.