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Drupal 7 Social Networking

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Social Networking Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516006
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drupal and Social Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs 4. Users and Profiles 5. Enabling User Interaction 6. Social Seasoning 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network 8. How We Can Design Our Site 9. Communicating with Our Users 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network 11. Easing Growing Pains 12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies Setting up a Local Development Environment Installed Modules Index

Collaborative writing


Drupal's book module provides our users with a wiki-based collaboration platform, wherein they can create structured, multi-page content on our site, for things such as the following:

  • Resources and guides

  • Manuals

  • Frequently asked questions

  • An online book

A suitable use for this module for our site would be to allow our users to create and contribute to a book about looking after a dinosaur throughout its lifetime. In turn, this would provide other users with a valuable resource, which they too can collaborate on if they have advice or information to share. Of course, as our site grows it would be better to have more books related to specific breeds of dinosaur, which is something we can work to accommodate as our social network starts to grow.

Creating a book

The first stage in creating a new collaborative book is to create a new book page; this will serve as the contents page, and the primary page for the book. We can create this page from the Add content screen:

As with all...

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