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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

The Core Drupal 7 look and feel


At the end of Chapter 1, Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal, you successfully installed Drupal 7. With Drupal 7 installed you will get a core bare-bones Drupal website that you can begin to customize for your client. Your site's home page should currently look like the following screenshot:

The site displays a blue header area with the Drupal logo icon, a hyperlink to your user account page and to log out of the site. The home tab shows in the primary menu; there's a search box and a Navigation block in the left sidebar; and some default home page content. You'll also notice the black horizontal admin menu that is only accessible to you when you are logged into the site as the admin user. This menu provides easy access to the Drupal administrative interface. Finally the footer area in black contains the Powered by Drupal text. Every time you install Drupal 7 for the first time you'll see a layout similar to this. The default theme that comes enabled with...