This is a book you have to read. This is a book you have to work through (by installing, wrapping your head around and reusing downloadable Drupal instances)... It is the author's earnest hope that the contents of this book may be shared with many kinds of Drupal users...

However, the problem this book attempts to solve, and in this sense it is perhaps unique, is the sad but true fact that the development of any website today involves the ability to master with at least a practical level of solvency, a huge number of disciplines. You need to be in a certain sense the Renaissance kind of person capable of either dealing with or (and this is extremely important) delegating when you cannot, an extremely wide range of skills. Meaning that you are very often in the position of needing to get up to speed on a wide variety of issues. This book attempts to bring them into a single, convenient space.

As a result the book focuses, in a detailed and practical manner, on a wide range of disciplines, tools and best practices you need in order to optimize the way you approach development projects built on this CMS and framework...This is for people who, given a set of website requirements and a community of users who need to use that website, have to learn how to fashion Drupal to their needs, how to domesticate Drupal, in short, how to get it done...