We’re almost done! The only problem with our view now is that clicking the titles in the view links to Amazon.com instead of to our own website. Fortunately, Views provides a handy trick for just this sort of situation; we can “rewrite” the output of the Title field to create a link back to its referring node instead. In this lesson, we'll:
- Exclude a field from display
- Rewrite the output of a field
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You've built the site that Bob and Sarah need to get their reviews going, but as always, there are ways to add more neat features. In this lesson, we'll look at a few modules you can look at adding down the road
- AdSense
- Display Suite
- Blog (core)
- Recipe
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We’ve hit all of the major pieces of functionality that Bob and Sarah wanted. In this summary, we'll:
- Tour the Super Duper Chefs site
- Discuss our implementation points
- Review modules and resources
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To get started, we'll need to create a content type to use for our product reviews. Based on the Super Duper Chefs requirements, in this lesson we'll:
- Create the Product Review Content Type
- Add a Field group
- Set permissions
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Amazon.com is one of a large number of web-based businesses that have opened up their product information databases for other sites to access. In the case of Super Duper Chefs, we want to retrieve useful data like product photos, pricing, and manufacturer information for display on our own website. The Amazon module for Drupal allows us to do just that. In this lesson we'll take a look at the Amazon module, by starting with:
- What’s Included?
- Locale
- Referral settings
- Amazon keys
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In a previous lesson in this series, we set up a content type for our product reviews. Now, we’re ready to add a field to store a link to the product on Amazon.com. In this lesson we'll:
- Enable and configure the Amazon module
- Get our Amazon key
- Add the Product Field
Note that Amazon changes the way they manage keys over time, so the way they are generated in the lesson may have changed. Please review the official AWS Product Advertising API documentation for current key generation instructions.
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Giving visitors a chance to evaluate and rate content is an extremely common pattern on content-rich websites. In addition to giving visitors a way to jump to the best content, it can give you a way to determine what content on your site is most effective. In this lesson we'll discuss:
- Voting API module
- Fivestar module
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For the Super Duper Chefs site, we’ll be using both of the Fivestar module’s unique features: adding a static Rating field to the “Product review” content type for the editors to use, and attaching a voting widget to the comment form on each review for the site readers to use. That approach will keep the official rating on each review separate from the reader ratings. In this lesson we'll:
- Add the Product Rating Field
- Add the Reader Rating Field
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Drupal’s theming system gives designers complete control over how a site’s content is rendered for a web browser, and custom themes can give any site a distinctive look. But sometimes it’s useful to make minor tweaks to a site’s appearance using nothing but CSS rules. They allow designers to tweak font sizes, colors, and so on without altering the underlying HTML that defines the site’s structure. In this lesson we'll look at:
- CSS Injector module
- Explain how this works
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Although our “Product review” content type has all of the data we need, the individual reviews still look a bit untidy. In this lesson, we’ll do some final tweaking to make the review display look nice and tidy.
- Setting Field Display Options
- Configuring CSS Injector
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Now that we have a few products, we really ought to add a listing page that lets visitors look over all of the products that have been reviewed, comparing official ratings with visitor ratings and sorting by various criteria. This is a perfect job for Views. In this lesson:
- Create a Product Finder view
- Display Amazon information
- Display voting results
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In this series, Ben Finklea of Volacci.com explains all the ins and outs of configuring Drupal and its various modules in order to maximize your site's Search Engine Optimization.
Ben begins by orienting you to the SEO landscape by walking through all of the essential components of the Drupal SEO Checklist module. He clearly explains the basic analytic metrics and webmaster tools you'll need to understand before researching the best keywords to focus on for your SEO campaign. He walks you through various Drupal modules you can use to manage your page titles, automatic URLs, meta tags, URL redirects, sitemaps and optimizations for local businesses. He also shows you how to configure built-in Drupal settings to properly set up your header tags, content silos, menu system, robots.txt and Apache rewrite rules. He also talks about how to measure your site's compliance and performance before laying out the next steps for your SEO campaign to maximize your site's conversion rates.
This series shows how Drupal is one of the best content management platforms for SEO. After watching the videos in this series, you'll know all of the steps you need to take to improve your site's search engine ranking!
Reviews all of the material covered in the Drupal SEO video series.
Goes over the different sections contained within the SEO Checklist module, which is a roadmap for all of the different steps that we will be going into more depth over the course of this video.
Goes through the process of setting up Google Analytics on your Drupal site with the help of some modules, and shows how to confirm that it is set up properly.
Goes over the different analytical sections and major configuration options available in Google's Webmaster Tools.
Goes through the process of researching keywords using Google's Adwords Keyword Tool, and shows you some best practices in gathering and evaluating those keywords within a spreadsheet.
Goes through the hierarchy of what's the highest weighting starting from the top of the browser window with the title page, and then moving down to the URL and then down into the actual web page.
Shows how you can override and customize the page titles that are created for an individual node so that you can more closely target specific SEO keywords.
Shows the process of automating and customizing the URLs and menu paths for different pieces of content.