Beginner

Some people use Drupal for a long time before having direct interaction with this community. These folks might be unaware that the community is out there, or of the benefits of having a good relationship with it.

In this chapter, we'll introduce the community and give some suggestions for how to interact with it (and get support) to get the best results for you and your website(s). First, let's start by sharing some basic information about the community. Then we'll talk about finding support. We'll end with some suggestions of ways that you (yes, you!) can say thanks to the Drupal community for the help and free software.

Summary

• A glance at the community
• Using Drupal.org and Groups.Drupal.org to Get Answers
• Finding the Best Contributed Modules
• Drupal Community Values
• Be Thankful
• Drinking from the fire hose

If you've ever seen a list such as “Popular News Stores,” “Customers who bought this item also bought” or “Other stories by this author,” then you're familiar with the idea of related and recommended content, and the value these recommendations can add for website visitors. They also add value for site owners, since suggestions (and especially good suggestions) of additional content make people more likely to stay on your site for longer, view more pages, and buy more products.

Whether you're looking for a new way to generate income or just trying to cover the costs of operating a website, you've probably wondered how your site will make money with its valuable content. In this chapter, we'll explore several different ways of generating income using external services like Google AdSense and Amazon.com's affiliate program, as well as self-contained systems for selling ads and charging to view and post content.

Contents

• Context-Sensitive ads with Google AdSense
• Building a self-contained ad selling system
• Online classifieds: Paying to post
• Subscription only Content
• Summary

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Drupal is a modular system. By breaking up responsibilities into different parts, such as modules, distinct parts of Drupal are responsible for different aspects of your site's functionality. Providing individual user accounts and passwords, displaying forms, storing and displaying content are all examples of discrete functionality. Similar to how different parts of the brain come together to provide our overall mental function, the components responsible for these pieces of functionality communicate with one another and all come together to make up an interactive website.

This book will provide a technical overview of Drupal.

Drupal is an open source content management software tool used by individuals, news and publishing companies, world government organizations, major record companies, and nonprofit organizations that allow people to build websites, publish content such as text, video and pictures and communicate with one another.

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Images are a critical part of modern websites, especially in the publishing world. Whether you are adding more depth to the “about us” page on a basic site, creating image galleries or have a photography blog, Drupal is equipped to power your site.

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Panels makes it relatively easy to integrate your Drupal site's content into dynamic landing pages with customized layouts.

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The Views module addresses a common need for people with a website full of content: displaying that content without having programming knowhow.

Views is one of the most innovative and important Contributed modules, empowering site administrators to easily create complex displays of content, and has changed the way developers build their modules.

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