Drupal 7 Business Solutions

by Trevor James, Mark Noble

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849516655
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/20/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	378
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Trevor is a Drupal developer based in Middletown, MD, USA. Trevor has been designing Web sites for 14 years using a combination of HTML, XHTML, CSS and ColdFusion, and has been using Drupal intensively for over four 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 using Drupal content types, Views, Panels and other contributed modules to develop front end 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 February 2010. For more on this title visit: https://www.packtpub.com/drupal-6-performance-tips-to-maximize-and-optimize-your-framework/book Trevor created an 11+ hour video tutorial series titled Introduction to Drupal 6 for VTC (Virtual Training Company) in 2009. The video is available via the VTC website here: http://www.vtc.com/products/Introductio ... orials.htm. He has just finished producing new Drupal 7 video tutorial course for VTC to be released in 2011.

Mark Noble has worked in software development and website design for over 13 years in a variety of capacities including development, quality assurance, and management. He takes pride in developing software and websites to make businesses run more effectively and delights in helping users to get their jobs done more easily. Mark currently works developing websites to help libraries manage their books. He also does occasional contract work for clients in a variety of industries. When he isn't in front of a computer, Mark enjoys playing with his family, photography, and geocaching.