Drupal 7 Business Solutions.

Drupal 7 Business Solutions.

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 wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James, Trevor
Other Authors: Noble, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.
Subjects:
Drupal (Computer file)
Web sites > Authoring programs.
Web site development.
Open source software.
Open source software
Web site development
Web sites > Authoring programs
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Drupal 7 Business Solutions; Drupal 7 Business Solutions; Credits; About the Authors; Acknowledgment; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 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 pagesKey advantages; Key disadvantages; Fully-customized site with PHP and MySQL; Key advantages; Key disadvantages; Drupal content management system; Benefits of building with Drupal; Disadvantages of Drupal; Deciding on Drupal; Getting started with Drupal; Artisan Bakers Collective on the web; Summary; 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; Street presence, setting up the home page; Blog style home pages; Tags.
  • Editing a pageSecurity considerations; Adding users; Adding images to your content; URL path settings; Using path aliases; Creating multiple aliases for a page; Automatically creating page aliases; Publishing options; 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; 3. Adding Products and Services.
  • Building a custom content typeIntroduction to content types; Goal; Designing the menu item; Goal; Steps; Creating the content type; Goal; Steps; Adding 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; Step 1: Determining how the content type will be used; Step 2: Determining what fields need to be included.
  • Step 3: Determining what type each field should use, and what validation should be doneStep 4: Determine who will be viewing and editing the content type; 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 item; Goal; Steps; Customizing the display of the content type nodes.

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