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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

Building menus


The primary way to organize content in Drupal is by using menus. The Drupal menu system organizes content in a simple outline, where a page can be nested under another page. Drupal handles the expansion and collapsing of menus to hide menus that aren't immediately relevant to the user. This helps to keep the menu short and also ensures that the visitor can easily understand your site layout. You can also create multiple menus for the site. For example, many sites will have a Main menu that is displayed on the left-hand side corner of the screen, and a smaller menu that is displayed at the top of the page, and that lets the visitor jump to a specific section of the website. Ultimately with Drupal 7 you can create as many menus as you need.

Types of menus

Drupal offers four different built-in menus:

  1. Main menu

  2. Management

  3. Navigation

  4. User menu

You can access all of your menus by going to Structure | Menus:

Although you can use these menus for any purpose you want, the standard...