封面
版权信息
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Drupal and Social Networking
Social Networking: An introduction
Why not join or use an existing social network?
Drupal
Drupal as a social networking platform
Alternatives to Drupal
DinoSpace!
Installing Drupal
Summary
Chapter 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site
How Drupal works
Administering Drupal—An overview
Content types and taxonomy: A detailed look
Planning our site
Starting to build our site
Summary
Chapter 3. User Content: Contributions Forums and Blogs
Our site
User roles: An important note
Drupal modules
Managing comments
Forums
Setting up and using blogs
Collaborative writing
Polls
Contributions in the form of pages
Uploaded files
Roles
Summary
Chapter 4. Users and Profiles
What are we going to do and why?
Getting set up
Users roles and permissions
Creating customizable user profiles
Globally recognized avatars: Enabling Gravatars
Tracking user activity
User centric home page
Account settings
Summary
Chapter 5. Enabling User Interaction
DinoSpace!: A review
Preparation: Installing the modules
Relationships
Related user activity stream
Contacting users
Groups
Commenting on user profiles
Summary
Chapter 6. Social Seasoning
Let's prepare our modules
Encouraging discussion with Disqus
Sharing content with AddThis
Leverage other features
Summary
Chapter 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network
Dinosaur-friendly venues
Useful resources
Building our module
Module in action
Summary
Chapter 8. How We Can Design Our Site
Drupal themes
The basics of creating a theme
Summary
Chapter 9. Communicating with Our Users
Getting started
A look back
Mailing lists
Using content blocks to get our message across
Using theme customisations to indirectly communicate with our users
Inactive users: Please come back
Summary
Chapter 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network
Installing the modules
Security
Deploying
Maintenance
Summary
Chapter 11. Easing Growing Pains
Basic performance tips
NoSQL options
Can't someone else do it?
Using content delivery networks
Code improvements and custom modules
Server performance and configuration
Scaling our resources
Adding redundancy to our setup
Keep an eye out…
Summary
Chapter 12. Promotion SEO User Retention and Monetization Strategies
Promotion and marketing
Search Engine Optimization
User retention
Monetization options
Final tips: Web stats
Modules to consider
Summary
Appendix A. Setting up a Local Development Environment
WampServer for Windows
Linux
Mac
Summary
Appendix B. Installed Modules
Chapter 1 to Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7 to Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 to Chapter 12
Index
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