Drupal 6 site builder solutions : build powerful web site features for your business and connect to your customers through blogs, product catalogs, newsletters, and maps / Mark Noble.

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Annotation This book takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete 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 designed primarily for business owners who want to create a new website for their company or upgrade a company website to be easier to maintain and have advanced capabilities. Whether you know Drupal or not, this book will be your guide to a powerful website.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introducing Good Eatin'; The Good Eatin' Bistro; Plans for a Good Eatin' web site; Selecting a foundation for the Good Eatin' site; Simple static web pages; Key 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; Extending the Good Eatin' site to other businesses; Getting started with Drupal

Jumping straight to dessert-Good Eatin' on the webSummary; Chapter 2: Creating Good Eatin's Online Presence; About Good Eatin': adding static pages; Adding a page; Spicin up your site with simple HTML; Editing a page; Security considerations; Creating Clean URLs; Street presence, setting up the home page; Blog style home pages; Creating a traditional home page; Other home page ideas; Getting around: Setting up navigation; Building menus; Types of menus; Designing your menus; Adding a page to a menu; Creating custom menu items; Setting the order of menu items; Deleting a page from the menu

Security considerationsVersion differences; Enabling modules; A page by any other name: Using aliases; Creating multiple aliases for a page; Automatically creating page aliases; Deleting a page; Leveraging the help of others: Installing custom modules; Security considerations; Whetting their appetites: Adding images; Inserting images with simple HTML; Changing the selected format; Creating and editing input formats; Inserting images using the image module; Creating images; Automatically resizing images; Deleting images; Dinner and a show: Adding slideshows to the site

Showing images on the page using Slideshow CreatorBasic steps for inserting a slideshow; Additional configuration options; Showing images over the page with Lightbox2; General settings; Advanced settings; Slideshow settings; HTML content settings; Automatic image handling settings; Viewing the slideshow; Personalizing the restaurant: Adding themes to the site; Selecting and installing a ready-made theme; Configuring a theme; Creating themes; Playing in the kitchen: Topics to research on your own; Using Image Assist to easily insert images; Book style pages; Setting up a graphical editor

Timing the publication of contentSummary; Chapter 3: Adding Products and Services; Building the good eatin' menu with a custom content type; Introduction to the CCK module; Installing CCK and CCK field modules; Designing the menu item; Creating the menu item type; Adding a price to the menu item; Adding seasonal information to the menu item; Adding which meals the menu item is available for; Adding an image for the menu item; Alternative solutions; Controlling access to the content type; Using taxonomy to categorize content; Create a vocabulary for course type

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