Drupal 7 business solutions : build powerful website features for your business / Trevor James, Mark Noble.

Title from PDF cover (viewed on Feb. 2, 2012).

Includes index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; Acknowledgment; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; What this book covers; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Chapter 1: Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal; Artisan Bakers Collective; Plans for the Artisan Bakers Collective website; Selecting a foundation for the Artisan Bakers Collective site; Simple static web pages; Key advantages; Key disadvantages; Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL; Key advantages; Key disadvantages

Drupal content management systemBenefits of building with Drupal; Disadvantages of Drupal; Deciding on Drupal; Getting started with Drupal; Artisan Bakers Collective on the web; Summary; Chapter 2: Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website; The Core Drupal 7 look and feel; Checking the site's status report; Cron; Clean URLs; Drupal core content-basic pages and articles; Adding a Basic page; Editing a page; Security considerations; Street presence, setting up the home page; Blog style home pages; Adding images to your content; URL path settings; Using path aliases

Creating multiple aliases for a pageAutomatically creating page aliases; Creating a traditional home page; Deleting a page; Getting around-setting up navigation; Building menus; Types of menus; Adding a page to a menu; Setting the order of menu items; Enabling core modules and installing contributed modules; Installing contributed modules; Installing the Menu Block module; Using the Menu Block module; Summary; Chapter 3: Adding Products and Services; Building a custom content type; Introduction to content types; Goal; Designing the menu item; Goal; Steps; Creating the content type; Goal

StepsAdding a price to the menu item; Goal; Steps; Adding ingredients, dietary concerns and meals fields; Goal; Steps; Adding seasonal information to the menu item; Goal; Additional modules needed; Steps; Adding an image; Goal; Steps; Alternative solutions; Controlling access to the content type; Goal; Steps; Using taxonomy to categorize content; Create a vocabulary for Type of Baked Good; Goal; Additional modules needed; Steps; Adding terms to the vocabulary; Goal; Additional modules needed; Steps; Adding the Term reference field; Goal; Steps; Adding content with the content type

Creating a new Breads and Pastries itemGoal; Steps; Customizing the display of the content type nodes; Modifying the order of fields and the display of the field labels; Goal; Steps; Summary; Chapter 4: Interacting with Customers and Visitors; Working with users; Allowing user registration; Goal; Steps; Extending the user signup form; Create a VIP role; Goal; Steps; Assign users to the VIP role; Goal; Steps; Working with comments; Enable comments for a content type and node; Goal; Adding new comments; Goal; Steps; Manage comments; Goal; Steps; Notification of new user comments on site; Goal

This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete business website using Drupal and enhancing it to include modern technology used by cutting-edge companies. All instructions are written in such a way that they make sense to readers of any technical level. This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to set up a website quickly for their business using the super powerful Drupal open source content management software.

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