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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

Chapter 2. Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website

In this chapter, we will start building the Artisan Bakers Collective website using Drupal 7. You'll learn how to use the Drupal 7 administrative interface to build your site. We'll look at the differences between the various types of content that Drupal 7 is bundled with and start building our site's pages.

After we get comfortable managing content, we will add web pages to the navigation system, so that customers can easily find all the information that they need. After the navigation has been completed, we will make the site look more visually appealing by adding images. We will learn how to enable core Drupal 7 modules; and how to install new modules.

By the end of this chapter you'll be able to:

  • Run cron, check site status report, and enable clean URLs

  • Add basic pages

  • Add user accounts and tweak user permissions

  • Add images to content

  • Create a home page

  • Add site menus

  • Enable core modules and install contributed modules