Drupal is a powerful, free system that anyone can use in order to create their own website. Packt's "Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions" by Mark Noble will help you build powerful website features for your business and connect to your customers through blogs, product catalogs, newsletters, and maps. This book requires no website development knowledge at all. It gives a complete example of a real world site with clear explanation.

"Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions" is a practical guide with clear, step-by-step instructions for setting up a home page, product catalog, blog, events calendar, and much more. It is your guide to building your business website in Drupal. All functionality is presented in a very clear step-by-step format which is easy to follow as you build your own site. This book will explore several modules that will allow you to do everything from adding calendars and events to integrating content from Flickr and YouTube. Each chapter adds some features to your website and brings you closer to your customers.

You can read an exclusive chapter at the publisher's website. 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. At the end of the book, you should be able to build a site on your own. This book will definitely be your guide to a powerful website.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Drupal that will guide users in creating and managing their own social networking website, using powerful and feature rich social networking modules. Written by Content Management expert, Michael Peacock, Drupal 6 Social Networking will help users in promoting and marketing their website using the Drupal CMS platform.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

This book will guide users from the basics of both Drupal and Social Networking right through to more complicated aspects, like creating their own custom design and features for their website. It will walk users through the creation of a custom module, making use of Google Maps, to illustrate how easily the social network can be extended to meet their needs. It will also introduce users to Drupal themes to install and enable new themes and customize the existing ones.

In addition to this, the book looks at communicating with the users of the social network through mailing lists, theme changes and Twitter feeds, to keep them up to date, and improve user retention. Through this book users will learn some useful methods for promoting their website through Search Engine Optimization, Online Marketing, and a range of new Social Media.