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Drupal 7 Social Networking

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Drupal 7 Social Networking

Overview of this book

Drupal is ideally equipped to serve as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook or MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking websites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature. Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose! Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using content blocks to get our message across


We mentioned earlier about creating a content block to contain a newsletter signup form for our Campaign Monitor list. We can also use blocks to create content to communicate messages to our user base, or to directly target anonymous users to try and encourage them to sign up. Let's look at creating a content block just for our anonymous users.

Firstly, we need to enter the basics, such as the description, title, and body for the block. We create the block by navigating to Structure | Blocks and clicking the Add block link:

Under Visibility settings, we need to select the Roles tab, and select the block to be visible only to anonymous users:

Now all we need to do is go into the blocks administration area and select where we want the block to be displayed. Once we have done that, if we log out, we can see the block is displayed on our site: