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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Paperback Jan 2012 378 pages 1st Edition

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Build a Drupal 7 powered website for your business rapidly
Add blogs, news, e-commerce, image galleries, maps, surveys, polls, and forums to your website to beat competition
Complete example of a real world site with clear explanation

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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.

Who is this book 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.

What you will learn

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.

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M. A. Mowen Apr 02, 2014

This book guides the user through the process of setting up an online store and understanding Drupal at the same time. Doing both is very challenging but the authors guide you and cover a lot of ground in the process. I would like to see a more extensive coverage of Drupal Commerce but that is probably beyond the scope of this book's purpose.If you're interested in learning Drupal via video tutorials, VTC.com has a good course by one of the authors (Trevor James). I learned a lot from that course.

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ThomasT Jun 29, 2012

The entire collection of books on Drupal 7 offered by Packt Publishing has to be one of the best series of books you can buy if you are interested in really learning Drupal. Though there is no suggested "learning path", if you carefully review their titles, you can see where you should start based on your own experience level. Regardless, even their straightforward "Drupal 7" book offers something for experienced Drupal hands as well.The quality comes through via the authors and the content chosen. All the books are full of detailed and very informative hands-on examples. I have had experience with other Drupal books as well and have found even the supposedly "advanced" example less detailed and comprehensive than in the books from this publisher."Drupal 7 Business Solutions" itself serves as a great reference for me - an intermediate Drupal practitioner - and my wife who is absolutely new to using Drupal.

Bruno Dec 11, 2012

No wasting time and words.. You start building a drupal solution, step by step, and you keep at it until the end.

mtspace Jul 14, 2014

In my opinion, a significant measure of goodness of a programming book lies in how quickly it moves to teaching you how to do things that are not immediately obvious once one either has a decent working understanding of the language or can navigate through a menu system to get results. So when I compare this book to, say, Drupal 7 Explained, I must conclude that this one is a great deal better. I bought both of them to help me answer a specific question regarding the use of Tags at a Drupal based site that I built before buying either book. Neither book answered the question; but it was after poking around in this one that I was struck with an inspiration that led to the solution of the problem at hand.This book starts by covering the underlying concepts upon which Drupal is built. Without a strong intuitive grasp of these, anyone building a Drupal site is likely to get hopelessly lost. Then it quickly turns to specific design problems: Making Menus, Managing and Using Taxonomy, Implementing Events Calendars, Creating a Storefront, and so on. I will admit that I've not used the book very much for these things, but as I look through its descriptions of procedures they appear to be clear and accurate. Even if they miss a trick here or there, one gets much farther faster with a book like this than with one that on p325 describes in painful detail how to edit a block. Some users may need that kind of help; but I cannot help but wonder whether those who do might better choose a different line of work.Neither book offers much help with the task of editing the CSS framework to achieve the look and feel required in a site. So if one of the canned skins doesn't satisfy, one must either be a CSS guru or learn slowly and painfully, perhaps using another book.Soon after I bought both books my own web host changed the terms of Drupal use in a way that makes it look inevitable that Drupal-based hosting is soon going to cost significantly more than plain-vanilla hosting. So I'm going to concentrate on PHP based solutions. I may spend a little more time coding the logic of a site, but at least I'll have full control over the visual aspects.

William J Jupp Aug 06, 2014

Too much like an overview and no tutorials or tell you how to do something.

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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