Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions Table of Contents

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 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

• Index