I recently built a Drupal site for a small (individual) client who wanted to host the site on a Network Solutions basic Web hosting plan. This made sense for him, because he had registered several domains with them. He wanted to keep things simple, which is always my goal too. We weren’t anticipating tremendous traffic, etc., and ongoing costs were a consideration, so this conservative approach made sense.

I had never used Network Solutions before, but thought I had heard generally good things about it. I double-checked what came with the basic hosting plan, and everything looked fine.

Then the day came when I actually tried to implement it…

After the first short chapter, the author quickly gets our hands dirty with genuinely useful code based on real-world applications. And this is the book’s strength: its the most comprehensively thorough technical book I’ve read in a long time. If you’ve ever been frustrated because an author doesn’t emphasize a small step in their instructions that turns out to be crucial to make the code work, you’ll appreciate the author’s thoroughness. Every detail of the code implementation is examined, and the author’s reasoning behind his decisions are all plainly laid out for the reader. Because of this, the author is able to provide more than just ‘demo’ code, while still making the progression through the book pretty gentle, so I think this book will appeal to a wide range of experience levels.