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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Drupal 7 Business Solutions

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

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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)
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Drupal 7 Business Solutions
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Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
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Credits
About the Authors
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About the Authors
Acknowledgment
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Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal
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Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal
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Artisan Bakers Collective
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Plans for the Artisan Bakers Collective website
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Simple static web pages
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Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL
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Disadvantages of Drupal
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Deciding on Drupal
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Getting started with Drupal
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Artisan Bakers Collective on the web
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Summary
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Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website
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Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website
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The Core Drupal 7 look and feel
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Drupal core content—basic pages and articles
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Adding images to your content
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Creating a traditional home page
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Getting around—setting up navigation
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Building menus
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Enabling core modules and installing contributed modules
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Adding Products and Services
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Adding Products and Services
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Building a custom content type
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Using taxonomy to categorize content
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Adding content with the content type
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Customizing the display of the content type nodes
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Interacting with Customers and Visitors
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Interacting with Customers and Visitors
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Working with users
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Working with comments
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Set up user ratings for content
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Working with polls
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Adding user surveys
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Creating a Company Blog
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Creating a Company Blog
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Creating blogs
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Enabling customers to read your blogs
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Including information from other blogs
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Newsletters and Calendars
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Newsletters and Calendars
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Creating newsletters
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Adding a calendar
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Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter
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Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter
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Integrating your site with other web content
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Online baking class
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Flickr integration: Another alternative for images and slideshows
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Posting your site's content to Twitter
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Freebies and Downloads
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Freebies and Downloads
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Adding downloads and PDFs to the website
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Online Orders and Payments
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Online Orders and Payments
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The Drupal Commerce module
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Image Galleries and Slideshows
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Image Galleries and Slideshows
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Using Views to build image galleries
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Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site
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Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site
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Website backups
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Optimizing your Drupal site and its database
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Creating content workflows and revisions
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Index

Simple static web pages

Many websites continue to be built by simply creating standalone HTML pages that do not change frequently over time. These pages can be created with a dedicated website design program or with a simple text editor. These pages are then uploaded to the web server, using an FTP client or another transfer client provided by the web host.

Key advantages

There are several advantages of using this method of web development, listed as follows:

  • HTML web editor software can make creating web pages as easy as writing a letter, since the interface is similar to Microsoft Word

  • Website editors may provide pre-built themes to make the website appealing, without any graphical design experience

  • It is a very easy way to get started

  • For simple sites, simple techniques are sometimes appropriate

  • A website can be created relatively quickly

  • Websites can be built for free or for the cost of a website design program

  • The hardware requirements are very low, so the website will run on nearly any host

Key disadvantages

Although static web pages can be easy to develop, there are a number of disadvantages that appear after you deploy the website and try to make revisions to it later. The disadvantages are listed as follows:

  • Adding a new page to the website may require changes to all of the existing pages on the website

  • Changing elements that are common to all pages, such as the header or the footer, may require changes to every page on the website

  • When major changes are needed to the website, it may be easier to rebuild the entire site

  • It is easy to have errors within the website, leading to pages that cannot be reached, or errors that the visitor may encounter. These errors can include broken links and images, and broken navigation menus

  • Advanced functionality cannot be added without custom programming

  • Created code can be inefficient or incorrect, leading to websites that do not display properly in all browsers

  • Security and optimization techniques created by other developers are not automatically applied to your site

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