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Birmingham-based IT publisher Packt Publishing is about to publish its 1000th title. Packt books are renowned among developers for being uniquely practical and focused. Packt books cover highly specific tools and technologies which IT professionals might not expect to see a high quality book on.
Packt would like you to join them in celebrating this milestone with a surprise gift – to get involved you just need to have already registered, or sign up for a free Packt account before 30th September 2012.

A single instance of Drupal can be used to run more than one website. This means you can install the Drupal software once and have it drive more than one website - each with its own theme,content, and users. This feature is called multi-site hosting.

Multi-site technologies were developed as a response to the needs of system administrators and developers. But what are those reasons?
What problems are solved by multi-site configurations? There are many different reasons why people choose to host multiple sites on the same server. Here are several examples:

I am presentlty conducting this exciting online course which teaches how to do more advanced customising of a Drupal 7 site. Topics covered include Drupal theme development , module development , performance and security enhancement , Views development. The course will reqire some PHP and MySQL programming skills.

Topic 1 Structure of a Drupal Theme
Topic 2 Modifying an existing theme
Topic 3 Building a new them
Topic 4 Structure of a Drupal module
Topic 5 Building a custom module
Topic 6 Monitoring, optimizing and analyzing your Drupal site
Topic 7 Creating new Drupal views

Book Title : Drupal Web Services - Integrate social and multimedia web services and applications with your Drupal website
Author : Trevor James
Publisher : Packt Publishing http://link.packtpub.com/tGk0YR

Does your Drupal web application bubble with life ? Is it part of the party or just sits in a dark corner and belches once in a while? You really need to get it acquainted with some web services if you haven’t already done that yet. Otherwise you are missing out a lot on the action out there.

I am assuming that your intention is to have a corporate site for your business.Typically the main purpose of the corporate site will be to disseminate information about the company and to position it in the market ; other qualities maybe regarded as extras. For the corporate site and indeed for any other kind of website, it is absolutely important to define the primary purpose of the site before any work begins on it in order to be able to create a web site which users will find effective, efficient and usable .