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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have explored a number of ways to integrate your website with sites created by other developers and other companies around the world, either by including information from their sites into your site or by publishing information from your site to them.

Including content from other websites is an extremely powerful way of building new content for your website without having to dedicate hundreds and thousands of hours and precious resources on the development of functionalities that have already been created by other developers. This allows you to focus on your core business and on the development of functionalities that are critical to the success of your site.

In the next chapter, we will discuss various ways of providing free content to your visitors, as well as ways of transferring information to them via the download of menus, pictures, brochures, or other content.