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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 blogs


In this section, we will discuss how to set up the core Drupal blog module so that a user can create blogs. We will demonstrate how Baker James creates blog posts, look at ways to moderate blogs, and use alternate editors to build the blog.

Setting up the blog system

In this section, we will enable the core Blog module and post a blog entry.

Goal

Set up the blog system, so that Baker James can begin posting to the blog.

Additional modules needed

Blog (cor)

Steps

In this section, we'll enable and configure the Blog module:

  1. Enable the core Blog module through the Modules administration screen. Save your module configuration:

  2. Drupal will allow any user with the Blog entry: Create new content permission to create a blog. To make it easier to control who can create blogs, we will create a new role called blogger. To build a new role, click on People and then the PERMISSIONS tab. Then click on the Roles link.

  3. Enter blogger as the role name and then click Add role, as shown in the following...