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Packt is pleased to announce Drupal 6 Attachment Views, a new book that helps developers add functionality and value to their Drupal website via step-by-step examples using view attachments. Written by J. Ayen Green, this informative book acts as a hands-on learning guide for Drupal developers.

Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Drupal’s power and flexibility combined with its exceptional de

sign makes it one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website. It is extremely scalable, hence making it ideal for both, a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.

Drupal 6 Attachment Views starts by introducing Attachment Views as a reader activity. This book helps reader’s create a single Attachment View and then takes a closer look at giving each page an interactive feel. Readers can also create composite displays in-order to increase and vary the information they want to provide as well as create static and interactive displays, to provide additional information to the user.

Packt is pleased to announce WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce, a new book that focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in. Written by Brian Bondari, this book provides an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WordPress<!-- Do not use an abbreviation without introducing it. --> e-Commerce to run an online store.

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management. First released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog, it has many features including a workflow, a plugin architecture as well as a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software that’s in use today.

WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce provides a simple approach to developing an effective online store. It guides developers through the initial stages of planning, plug-in installation and configuration, building product catalogs to sell, accepting payments for orders and dealing with taxes and shipping. Readers will also learn how to promote and market their new stores, handle customer accounts and staff roles, as well as deal with essential store security.

Packt publishing is reaching out to potential authors through Twitter. The @packtauthors account features the latest book ideas, topic areas, author interviews, reviews, and anything else Packt thinks authors and future authors will want to see.

Packt launched a new twitter account to tweet about new writing opportunities arising at Packt. Developers and technical people interested in writing technical books are invited to follow @packtauthors.

Most technical publishers expect authors to deliver detailed book proposals, with very little guidance on the sort of proposals likely to be accepted. Packt is turning this on its head by openly proclaiming the sort of topics and titles they’re most interested in right now, and inviting interested authors to get in touch with a simple email.

“We are planning to publish more than 200 books this year and will be inviting authors to write them. We’ll tweet about specific book ideas that need authors, topic areas that we’re looking into, interesting links, and anything else we think authors and future authors will want to see,” said David Barnes, Author Relationship Manager at Packt Publishing.  “Follow @packtauthors so you can be the first to discover our latest writing opportunities.”