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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

About the Authors

Trevor James is a Drupal developer based in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been designing websites for 15 years using a combination of PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, and ColdFusion, and has been using Drupal intensively for over five years. Trevor's focus is on building web applications and portals for education, non-profit, medical systems, and small business environments.

He is interested in best methods of integrating Web services with Drupal sites, optimizing Drupal site performance, and building custom Drupal content displays using Views, Panels, Display Suite and other contributed modules. Trevor develops front end Drupal-based interfaces that support data intensive websites. He loves teaching people about Drupal and how to use this excellent open source content management framework.

Trevor authored the Packt book, Drupal Web Services, published in November 2010. For more on this title visit: http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-web-services/book.

Trevor co-authored the Packt title, Drupal 6 Performance Tips, published in February2010. For more on this title visit: https://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-performance-tips-to-maximize-and-optimize-your-framework/book.

Trevor created a 14 hour video tutorial series on Drupal 7 for VTC (Virtual Training Company) in 2011. The video is available via the VTC website here: http://www.vtc.com/products/Drupal-7-Tutorials.htm.