This is a fun, informative, hands-on learning guide that uses an actual case study. In an interactive and informal manner, this guide presents purposeful examples that continue to build on each other. Clear, concise instructions and practical examples mean you can learn quickly how to take care of the content in your Drupal site. This book is designed for those who run the site day-to-day but didn't set it up, and aren't necessarily that well versed in Drupal or web technologies. You could be a content editor, proofreader, graphic artist, feature editor, or anyone else concerned with managing content on a Drupal installation.
Author(s): J. Ayen Green
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 195
Cover......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
What is Drupal?......Page 19
Who is the target reader?......Page 20
A guided tour of Drupal......Page 21
The Drupal front end......Page 22
The Drupal back end......Page 24
Content management......Page 25
User management......Page 26
Site building......Page 27
Summary......Page 28
What you will learn......Page 29
What is content?......Page 30
Node Content types—the Story......Page 31
Activity 2.1: Creating a Story......Page 32
Activity 2.2: Editing Node Content......Page 36
Content creation form fields......Page 38
Activity 2.3: Creating a Drupal Page with a Rich Text Editor......Page 41
Permissions in Drupal......Page 45
Summary......Page 46
What you will do......Page 47
Activity 3.1: Creating a Teaser......Page 48
Activity 3.2: Creating an external text link......Page 54
The anatomy of a link......Page 56
Activity 3.3: Working with images in content......Page 57
Activity 3.3a: Uploading and embedding an image......Page 58
Inserting an image if you don't have an editor......Page 61
Activity 3.3b: Creating an image link......Page 62
Activity 3.4: Adding audio content......Page 64
Activity 3.5: Providing a link to downloadable content......Page 67
Activity 3.6: Adding video content......Page 72
Summary......Page 74
What you will learn......Page 75
HTML and tables......Page 76
CSS in Drupal......Page 77
Activity 4.2: Creating a CSS file......Page 78
Activity 4.3: Creating an 'include' file......Page 79
Activity 4.4: Creating the Node Content header......Page 82
Activity 4.5: Creating the Node Content Body......Page 85
Activity 4.6: Creating a Revision......Page 92
Summary......Page 94
What you will learn......Page 95
Activity 5.1: Creating a Taxonomy Vocabulary......Page 96
Tag Clouds......Page 101
Activity 5.2: Creating a Path Alias......Page 104
Searching......Page 105
Activity 5.3: Enabling the Search functionality......Page 106
Summary......Page 108
What you will do......Page 109
Activity 6.1: Creating a Block......Page 110
Deciphering the Blocks page......Page 119
Determining the Block widths......Page 120
Activity 6.2: Creating a View......Page 121
On Blogging......Page 137
Activity 6.3: Creating a Blog entry......Page 138
Setting up a Blog......Page 141
Summary......Page 142
What you will do......Page 143
The Creative team......Page 144
Activity 7.1: Creating Roles......Page 145
Activity 7.2: Node Content for our Roles......Page 146
Permissions......Page 149
Activity 7.4: Granting Permissions......Page 150
The disgruntled team member......Page 154
Activity 7.5: Blocking......Page 155
Summary......Page 158
Creating content offline......Page 159
Activity 8.1: Pasting lightly-formatted text......Page 160
Activity 8.2: Creating a Blog entry remotely......Page 163
Activity 8.3: Using email to create a Story......Page 166
Activity 8.4: Using email to edit Node Content......Page 168
Summary......Page 171
Determining if the hosting account meets spec......Page 173
Downloading Drupal 6.x......Page 174
Creating the database......Page 176
Installing Drupal......Page 177
Low-priority help......Page 183
High-priority help......Page 184
Finding modules......Page 185
Finding Packt guides......Page 186
Index......Page 187
