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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.

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Jan, 2012 | 378 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal
Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal
Artisan Bakers Collective
Plans for the Artisan Bakers Collective website
Simple static web pages
Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL
Disadvantages of Drupal
Deciding on Drupal
Getting started with Drupal
Artisan Bakers Collective on the web
Summary
2
Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website
Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website
The Core Drupal 7 look and feel
Drupal core content—basic pages and articles
Adding images to your content
Creating a traditional home page
Getting around—setting up navigation
Building menus
Enabling core modules and installing contributed modules
Summary
3
Adding Products and Services
Adding Products and Services
Building a custom content type
Using taxonomy to categorize content
Adding content with the content type
Customizing the display of the content type nodes
Summary
4
Interacting with Customers and Visitors
Interacting with Customers and Visitors
Working with users
Working with comments
Set up user ratings for content
Working with polls
Adding user surveys
Summary
5
Creating a Company Blog
Creating a Company Blog
Creating blogs
Enabling customers to read your blogs
Including information from other blogs
Summary
6
Newsletters and Calendars
Newsletters and Calendars
Creating newsletters
Adding a calendar
Summary
7
Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter
Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter
Integrating your site with other web content
Online baking class
Flickr integration: Another alternative for images and slideshows
Posting your site's content to Twitter
Summary
8
Freebies and Downloads
Freebies and Downloads
Adding downloads and PDFs to the website
Summary
9
Online Orders and Payments
Online Orders and Payments
The Drupal Commerce module
Summary
10
Image Galleries and Slideshows
Image Galleries and Slideshows
Using Views to build image galleries
Summary
11
Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site
Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site
Website backups
Optimizing your Drupal site and its database
Creating content workflows and revisions
Summary
Index
Index

Including information from other blogs

In this section, we will add content from blogs on other sites that is relevant to the customers of our site. This can help customers recognize you as an authority in your area and make the site more useful to them.

Allowing your site to read content

In this section, we'll configure the core Drupal Aggregator module.

Goal

Set up the core Aggregator module to collect posts from other blogs and display them on the Artisan Bakers Collective site.

Additional modules needed

Aggregator (core)

Steps

In this section, we'll enable and configure the Aggregator module. This module will allow us to feed in content to our site from other external websites.

  1. Activate the Aggregator module through the modules administration screen.

  2. The Aggregator module configuration can now be accessed by clicking on Configuration and then Feed aggregator, from the WEB SERVICES table.

  3. There are several settings available to the Feed aggregator. These can be found by clicking on the SETTINGS...

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