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Packt Publishing announces the publication of Drupal 7 Business Solutions by Trevor James and Mark Noble.
What you will learn from this book
- Install and set up Drupal
- Add blogs to attract customers to your business site
- Add customer accounts to your site
- Incorporate e-commerce in your site to sell your products online using Ubercart and the new Commerce modules.
- Integrate Google maps, YouTube videos, and e-newsletter with your site which will help you increase your profits
- Insert online surveys and polls in your site to improve business through customer feedback
- Take care of and maintain your site.
In Detail
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.
Approach
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.
Who this book is for
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.
The Authors
Trevor James
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/Introduction-To-Drupal-6-Tutorials.htm. He recently produced a Drupal 7 video tutorial course for VTC.
Mark Noble
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.
Book giveaway
Packt Publishing has graciously offered to sponsor a giveaway of our book Drupal 7 Business Solutions. Trevor will be giving away 1 copy of the book to a random winner who sends contacts us via the contact form on Trevor's Web site. The rules are that you need to submit the Contact form with your e-mail address and a note in the comments box about what you are planning to use Drupal for in 2012. Submissions will be collected for a week from the book's publication date (approximately Jan. 30, 2012). Then one lucky winner will be chosen. Packt will then send the person a copy of the print version of the book (if you live in US or Europe); or 1 copy of the e-version of the book to those who live elsewhere. Again, only 1 copy (print or e-version) will be given out.
So if you want to participate please send a note via the site's contact form here: http://variantcube.com/contact.
You can learn more about the book and it's official release date and download a sample chapter here on the Packt Web site:
http://www.packtpub.com/drupal-7-business-solutions-to-build-powerful-we...
-Trevor James
