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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

Adding user surveys


User surveys allow more complex methods of querying visitors for information. Surveys support multiple questions that are asked at one time and questions that require more complex answers than a simple selection between a finite number of predefined choices. Baker James will use the user survey to get more comprehensive feedback and information about his customers' experience and what they expect from the bakery in the future.

Creating a user survey

In this section we'll create a survey form on our site.

Goal

Add a survey to the website that asks visitors for their opinion on various aspects of the bakery including specifics about what new food items they are interested in, what their favorite visiting times are, how frequently they visit, and so on.

Additional modules needed

Webform module (http://drupal.org/project/webform).

Steps

In this section we'll install and configure the Webform module:

  1. Install the WEBFORM module on your site, and activate it by using the Modules admin...