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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

Creating a traditional home page


Another method of creating a home page for Artisan Bakers Collective is to create a specific node in Drupal, and then specify that node as the home page. Let's walk through this process now and then you will have two home page options to present your clients with.

The first step in creating a traditional home page is to create a Basic page that will serve as the foundation for our home page. We will create the page in exactly the same way as we created the About Us page. Click on your Add content link and then click on the Basic page link. The Basic page form will load.

For this specific example of a home page using the Basic page type let's enter the text as shown in the following screenshot. Of course, you can enter any text you have that meets your client's requirements:

Select the URL path settings tab and type in home page as the path alias for this node. Then click on Save. The Basic page type does not come with an image field by default, so we'll need...