Trevor James - Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Thanks to the Packt editorial staff including Usha Iyer, Vishal Bodwani, Gaurav Mehta, and Dayan Hyames for approaching me originally about writing the second edition of this title. It's been great working on the updated version of the book for Drupal 7. As always the Packt editorial staff have impressed me with their professionalism and knowledge of Drupal and open source. They continue to contribute back to the open source community and to the Drupal community with their titles and as always contribute a percentage of the profits from this book back to the Drupal Association.

I thank all the reviewers of the book who worked closely with me to get this finished product out the door.

The authoring process takes a great deal of time and I thank my family for allowing me to devote countless hours to the writing process. Much thanks to my wife Veronica and our lovely twin daughters Francesca and Clare.

This book is for all the new Drupal users out there. I hope you are as inspired by Drupal as I am and this software helps you to build a rich and dynamic site for your small business. Drupal on!

Mark Noble has worked in software development and website design for over 13 years, in a variety of capacities including development, quality assurance, and management. He takes pride in developing software and websites to make businesses run more effectively, and delights in helping users to get their jobs done more easily.

Mark currently works developing websites, using a combination of Java and PHP, to help libraries to manage their collections. He also performs contract work for clients in a variety of industries, developing both traditional desktop applications as well as web-based applications, using Drupal and a variety of other technologies. When he isn't working for a client, Mark enjoys building sites using Drupal. His other hobbies include playing with his family, photography, hiking, travel, and geocaching.

I would like to thank my wife, April, and my kids, Zoe and Theo, for their support during the writing of this book. I know that at times when deadlines got short, I did too. I love you all and I'm looking forward to having some downtime and relaxation with everyone.

Richard Carter is the Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the North East of England, working with clients including Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.

Richard is the author of MediaWiki Skins Design, Magento 1.3 Themes Design, Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook , and Magento 1.4 Themes Design . He has acted as a technical reviewer on MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide, Inkscape 0.48 Essentials For Web Designers , and the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 , and is a co-founder of the Drupal North East user group (http://www.drupalnortheast.org.uk).

He blogs at http://www.earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets nonsense at http://twitter.com/RichardCarter.

I would like to thank the author of the book for dedicating time to helping others learn Drupal, which has changed beyond most recognition in the last few years.

Jeffrey Smith has 15+ years experience in the IT industry and about eight months experience as a .NET developer. He loves trying new things which is a blessing and a curse.

He loves technology and trying new things. He is currently ramping up his JavaScript and Ruby on Rails skills. He is a .NET developer by day and experiments with new things at night. He is working on projects that use ASP.NET MVC, C#, Coffeescript, Drupal, JQuery, MongoDB, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Rhomobile, Sproutcore, and the Strobe framework.

Ravishankar Somasundaram has over six years of experience in providing solutions to clients across multiple sectors and domains. Being more passionate about learning and teaching, he also strongly believes that the sole purpose of learning is to make our minds think in different perspectives and facilitates the same in his training sessions through a blended learning approach mainly focused on how to "learn to learn".

In his early schooling apart from winning several prizes in science projects, he was awarded the Title "Junior Scientist" by a committee consisting of people from ISRO in an Inter school Science Fest for a model display on "Evolution of Airplanes through Aerodynamics", this is one of his childhood achievements.