Drupal minisite support help required

By Syed_Shah on 10 Jun 2009 at 16:29 UTC

Hello all,
I am new to drupal and am just about to start using it. I am proficient in php, however, I am using an open CMS for the first time. Kindly guide me how can i use to make a minisite, or will it be correct to chose drupal for making a minisite, whose contents are control from the content manager. I will also like to know if a module having squeeze pages etc are available for drupal.

Thanks for you guidance.

Syed Shah

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It should have the

Syed_Shah commented 10 June 2009 at 16:40

It should have the functionality as this. The index page is a squeeze page, where the user subscribes. then he is taken to a next page, where he buys products. then he is taken to an upsale page. if he does not buy anything, he is taken to the thank you page. so basically a shapping cart integration, and optin, opt out form etc. I would also like to know if drupal gives the rotate functionality for squeeze pages. Kindly review this post and previous post in detail and give me a detailed reply. It is very important for me.

I would really appreciate your co operation in this regards
Thanks
Syed

I have no idea what you mean

mradcliffe

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commented 10 June 2009 at 19:27

I have no idea what you mean by "squeeze" page. Can you define "squeeze" in this context a bit more other than "user subscribes"?

I guess you're trying to create some sort of ecommerce site. I don't know what you're selling, but you should take a look a two major ecommerce suites available for Drupal: ecommerce and ubercart (there are others).

Both of those suites have tons of contributed modules to extend functionality and their own sub-sites.

I need help to set a minisite up in drupal. please help me

Syed_Shah commented 11 June 2009 at 12:37

I actually want to build a minisite. A squeeze page is a webpage that, when the visitor "lands" on it, he is asked to opt-in to some type of list in order to proceed further. On some squeeze pages, your only options are to opt-in or leave. On others, you are given a method to continue exploring the site without opting in. There should be a split-testing/rotating functionality, so that if i want to use more than one squeeze page to see which one would attract more users to opt in. the rotate script will enable one squeeze page to be used at a time, while hiding the rest. I am sure a few guys would have experience with this sort of development. If you need more details, let me know.

Thanks
Syed

Front Page module

grobemo commented 11 June 2009 at 13:02

I don't know of a module that creates squeeze pages, but I think you could put together a squeeze page from the Front Page module, the Content Access module, and the Login Destination module.

As far as I know, the Front Page module doesn't have the ability to rotate through several pages, but it shouldn't be that hard to add. You could do add it yourself or request it as a feature (though adding it yourself would be faster).

Content Access would enable you to control what users could see if they don't sign up.

I find the easiest way to search for modules is at http://drupalmodules.com. If you find that you need additional modules, look there.

Welcome to Drupal.

that helped but i need more info

Syed_Shah commented 11 June 2009 at 18:09

Hello,
The suggestion looks workable. However, i would like to know if there is any optin/optout module, with which user will get emails, and when he unsubscribes, he will not get further emails. the squeeze page also keeps tracks of the visitors, so i would need this functionality as well.

Thanks

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grobemo commented 11 June 2009 at 18:49

There are a lot of modules that handle that sort of thing, though I don't know much about any of them. Mailout looks like it might suit your purposes. If you have trouble finding such a module, you might try creating a new forum thread asking specifically for advice about email subscription modules.