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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Business Solutions Drupal open source content management is the perfect solution for small business websites, and this book takes you through the whole process step-by-step, from installing Drupal to incorporating sophisticated e-commerce modules.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516648
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Planning our Site and Setting up Drupal 2. Creating the Artisan Bakers Collective Website FREE CHAPTER 3. Adding Products and Services 4. Interacting with Customers and Visitors 5. Creating a Company Blog 6. Newsletters and Calendars 7. Sharing and Consuming with YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter 8. Freebies and Downloads 9. Online Orders and Payments 10. Image Galleries and Slideshows 11. Maintaining and Optimizing your Drupal Site Index

Drupal core content—basic pages and articles


This section will describe how to add content, or what you may be used to referring to as web pages. First we need to define some terms that Drupal uses when it deals with web-based content. When we talk about web pages within the Drupal framework, we're going to be generally speaking of nodes. A node is the Drupal equivalent of a web page, containing text, images, and other content. So when you add a page to a Drupal site you're adding a node. Additionally, each node in Drupal gets an ID that corresponds to its location in the MySQL database. In Drupal a web page is not a flat file that sits on the web server. It's a node that populates a database as data. Attached files and images get uploaded to the web server and sit in file directories, but the web content in a node gets stored in the database.

When we add nodes to our site we add them using content types. Drupal content types are used to add content to a Drupal site. Generally your client...

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions
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