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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

Artisan Bakers Collective on the web


You've successfully installed Drupal 7 and actually already have a fully-functional core Drupal 7 website for your client's business. In Chapter 2, Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website, we'll dive right into the Drupal 7 interface and start adding our client's content and setting up the website, as per our client's requirements.

If you want to see an example of the techniques used in this book as well as a live example of the complete website, you can visit http://variantcube.com/artisanbakers/. This site contains all of the examples developed throughout the course of this book. If you have questions about how to use Drupal, please post them on the forum at http://variantcube.com/artisanbakers/forum, and I will try to answer your questions, as quickly as possible. You can search on Drupal.org, using the site's default search box. Alternatively, you can visit the Drupal forums at http://www.drupal.org/forum, to see if you can find an answer to your question; if not, you can post the question to the Drupal.org community.