Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions Table of Contents

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Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing Good Eatin'
Chapter 2: Creating Good Eatin's Online Presence
Chapter 3: Adding Products and Services
Chapter 4: Interacting With Customers and Visitors
Chapter 5: Creating a Company Blog
Chapter 6: Newsletters and Calendars
Chapter 7: Buzzword Compliance: Whisking in Some Web 2.0
Chapter 8: Freebies and Downloads
Chapter 9: Online Orders and Payments
Chapter 10: Keeping a Clean Kitchen
Chapter 11: From Restaurants to Other Businesses
Index

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 web
- Summary

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 considerations
    - Version 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 Creator
    - Basic 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 content
- Summary

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
  - Adding terms to the course type vocabulary
  - Adding the ingredients list vocabulary
  - Adding vocabularies as CCK fields
- Adding content with the menu item type
  - Creating a new menu item
- Customizing the display of the menu item
  - Modifying the order of fields and the titles of the menu item
  - Advanced customization with content templates
- Displaying groups of menu items with Views
  - Introducing the Views module
  - Creating the menu items by meal view
    - Filtering based on the content type
    - Adding an argument to control meal display
    - Adding sorting based on course
    - Creating a page and menu to display the View
  - Advanced search using Views
    - Creating the View
    - Adding fields
    - Adding filters
    - Creating a page and menu
    - Using the search form
  - Building an index for our vocabularies
- Summary

Chapter 4: Interacting With Customers and Visitors
- Working with users
  - Allowing user registration
  - Create a VIP role
  - Assign users to the VIP role
  - Notification on sign up
    - Creating the email action
    - Creating the new user trigger
- Working with comments
  - Enable comments for a node
  - Adding new comments
  - Manage comments
  - Setup email notification when comments are posted
- Set up user ratings for content
  - Add Fivestar content ratings to a node
  - View content by rating
  - Change the display of the ratings
- Working with polls
  - Create a poll
  - Adding the poll to the home page
  - Submitting a poll
  - Viewing poll results
  - Upgrading to Advanced Poll
- Adding user surveys
  - Creating a user survey
  - Protecting the survey with Captchas
  - Answering a survey
  - Viewing survey results
    - Submissions view
    - Analysis view
    - Table view
    - Download view
    - Clear
- Summary

Chapter 5: Creating a Company Blog
- Creating blogs
  - Setting up the blog system
  - Adding a new blog post
  - Adding moderation for blog posts
    - Creating the moderator role
    - Setting up moderation for the blog posts
  - Automatically moderating content based on keywords
- Enabling customers to read your blogs
  - Displaying a list of available blogs
    - Creating a blog menu
    - Creating a blog block
    - Creating an RSS feed for newsreaders
  - Adding subscription buttons
- Including information from other blogs
  - Allowing your site to read content
  - Viewing feeds
  - Automatically updating your feeds with cron jobs
    - Setting up a cron job in Unix or Linux
    - Setting up a cron job in Windows
    - Additional ways of setting up cron
  - Using poormanscron as an alternative way of updating feeds
- Summary

Chapter 6: Newsletters and Calendars
- Creating newsletters
  - Creating a newsletter
  - Allowing users to sign-up for the newsletter
  - Managing sign-ups
  - Importing subscriptions from an existing list
  - Creating a new issue of the newsletter
- Adding a calendar
  - Adding new events to the calendar
  - Displaying events
  - Adding other content types to the event calendar
  - Creating events using CCK
  - Displaying a calendar using views and CCK
- Summary

Chapter 7: Buzzword Compliance: Whisking in Some Web 2.0
- Online cooking class
  - Embedding a YouTube video with a filter
  - Creating a YouTube playlist and display a random video
  - Enhancing content with the Embedded Media Field
  - Flickr integration: Another alternative for images and slideshows
  - Embedding media from Flickr
  - Using the Flickr module to insert photos using a filter
- Adding Google maps
  - Getting a Google maps API key
  - Insert a simple map with GMapEZ
  - Displaying content in pop-ups
  - Using links to change the map
  - Content sharing, bookmarking, and twittering—oh my!
  - Diggin' Digg It with DiggThis
  - Tagging content for del.ico.us!
  - Twitter when you post
  - Social bookmarking with service links
- Summary

Chapter 8: Freebies and Downloads
- Adding downloads and PDFs to the web site
  - Controlling how files are downloaded
  - Allowing files to be uploaded to the web site
  - Sending the correct file types to a user
  - Forcing a file to be downloaded
  - Tracking download counts
  - Allow users to browse files
  - Automatically generating PDF files for a page
- Summary

Chapter 9: Online Orders and Payments
- Take-out ordering
  - Setting up the shopping system
    - Basic configuration
    - Permissions
    - Blocks
  - Building the take-out menu
  - Setting up a payment processor
  - Setting up notifications when orders are complete
  - Example order
- Summary

Chapter 10: Keeping a Clean Kitchen
- Web site backups
  - Manually backing up a site
  - Automatic site backups
  - Restoring a site from a backup
- Web site optimization
  - Optimizing the database tables
  - Using caching to improve performance
- Maintaining content
  - Creating content revisions
  - Comparing content revisions
  - Moderate content
  - Allowing users to report questionable or offensive content.
- Upgrading to new versions of Drupal
  - Checking for new updates to Drupal and modules
  - Upgrading minor releases
  - Upgrading to a new major release
- Summary

Chapter 11: From Restaurants to Other Businesses
- Possible enhancements to the Good Eatin' site
  - Birthday parties
  - Gift certificates
  - Employment
  - Loyalty rewards
- Similar businesses
  - Informational blogging
    - Advertising
    - Donations
    - Membership
  - Retail store
  - Photography
  - Bed and breakfast
- Outsourcing your development and hosting
  - Selecting a hosting company
    - Basic hardware needs
    - Selecting hosting
    - Drupal-specific hosting plans
    - Reviews of hosting companies
    - Experience matters
    - Ease of access
    - Other included features
  - Hiring a developer
    - Developer qualifications
    - Graphic design qualifications
    - Finding a developer on Drupal.org
- Summary