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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Overview of this book

You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business. Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source. You'll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you'll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar. The book will then teach you to add e-commerce to your site so you can sell your products online. You'll add YouTube videos and Google maps to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers. The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Views to build image galleries


Baker James wants to display photos of the bakery's breads in an image gallery design on the Website. He has about 20 images he would like to display on the page and he wants to grow this gallery over time and add more photos. To set this up we're going to use the Views module. First, we'll install and configure the Views module and get introduced to the power of using Views to create lists and displays of content including photos. By building an image gallery for the website you'll learn how to use the Views module.

Installing and Configuring the Views module

The Views module lets you build lists of content including text and images and display these in visually compelling galleries, tables, bulleted lists, and more. Views enables you to filter to specific types of content on your site and exclude types of content. For example if we're building an image gallery we can tell the View to only display the Photo content type content, and only content tagged...