Richard Carter - Building e-commerce sites with Drupal Commerce cookbook

Richard Carter is a web designer and a frontend web developer with a passion for a range of open source e-commerce and content management systems, including Magento, MediaWiki, and Drupal. He has worked with clients including Badminton England, University College Dublin, Directgov, NHS Choices, and BusinessLink.gov.uk.

Richard is Creative Director at Peacock Carter Ltd (peacockcarter.co.uk), a web design and development agency based in the North East of England. He graduated from the University of Durham in Software Engineering, and currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He blogs at earlgreyandbattenburg.co.uk and tweets at twitter.com/RichardCarter.

This book is the authors fifth; Richard has previously written MediaWiki Skins Design , Magento 1.3 Theme Design , Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook , and Magento 1.4 Themes Design and has acted as a technical reviewer on The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 , Drupal 7 Business Solutions , MediaWiki 1.1 Beginners Guide , and Inkscape Illustrators Guide .

A huge thank you must go to the guys behind Drupal Commerce, Commerce Guys, who put a lot of effort into ensuring modules were stable for the books release, as well as days or even weeks of their time reviewing the books content.

Finally, thanks to my friends and family for their support, in particular, Karina, who has coped spectacularly well (perhaps too well!) with my late nights and weekends of work.

Augustin Delaporte graduated from INSA Lyon, one of the top engineering schools in France. During his studies, he worked in Shanghai as a Drupal developer.

After his internship as a project manager for six months, where he demonstrated his technical ability, enthusiasm, and communication skills, Augustin joined Commerce Guys in Paris to strengthen the Product and Training teams. He was part of the team that created Commerce Kickstart.

Nicolas Meyer has been a full time Drupal developer since 1997. He started his Drupal career by leading the conversion of the French Primer Ministers website to Drupal, and joined Commerce Guys at its inception. He has been a key member of the Commerce Kickstart team since the beginning of the project.

Surendra Mohan is currently serving as Drupal Consultant cum Drupal Architect at a well-known software consulting organization in India. Prior to joining this organization, he served a few Indian MNCs, and a couple of startups in varied roles such as Programmer, Technical Lead, Project Lead, Project Manager, Solution Architect, and Service Delivery Manager. He has more than 8 years of working experience in Web Technologies covering media and entertainment, real estate, travel and tours, publishing, e-learning, enterprise architecture, and so on. He is also a well-known speaker who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Moodle, and so on along with organizing and delivering TechTalks in Drupal meet-ups and Drupal Camps in Mumbai, India.

He has also reviewed other technical books, namely, Drupal 7 Multi Site Configuration and Drupal Search Engine Optimization .

I would like to thank my family and friends who supported and encouraged me in completing my reviews on time with good quality.

Dave Pullen joined the Commerce Guys team in May of 2012 after completing a training course intended to refocus his skill set towards software development. He brings with him more than 11 years of CMS experience (primarily focused on newspapers, magazines, and radio) from a variety of positions including technical support, quality assurance, and product management.