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
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 196
Cover......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
What is Drupal?......Page 20
Who is the target reader?......Page 21
A guided tour of Drupal......Page 22
The Drupal front end......Page 23
The Drupal back end......Page 25
Content management......Page 26
User management......Page 27
Site building......Page 28
Summary......Page 29
What you will learn......Page 30
What is content?......Page 31
Node Content types—the Story......Page 32
Activity 2.1: Creating a Story......Page 33
Activity 2.2: Editing Node Content......Page 37
Content creation form fields......Page 39
Activity 2.3: Creating a Drupal Page with a Rich Text Editor......Page 42
Permissions in Drupal......Page 46
Summary......Page 47
What you will do......Page 48
Activity 3.1: Creating a Teaser......Page 49
Activity 3.2: Creating an external text link......Page 55
The anatomy of a link......Page 57
Activity 3.3: Working with images in content......Page 58
Activity 3.3a: Uploading and embedding an image......Page 59
Inserting an image if you don't have an editor......Page 62
Activity 3.3b: Creating an image link......Page 63
Activity 3.4: Adding audio content......Page 65
Activity 3.5: Providing a link to downloadable content......Page 68
Activity 3.6: Adding video content......Page 73
Summary......Page 75
What you will learn......Page 76
HTML and tables......Page 77
CSS in Drupal......Page 78
Activity 4.2: Creating a CSS file......Page 79
Activity 4.3: Creating an 'include' file......Page 80
Activity 4.4: Creating the Node Content header......Page 83
Activity 4.5: Creating the Node Content Body......Page 86
Activity 4.6: Creating a Revision......Page 93
Summary......Page 95
What you will learn......Page 96
Activity 5.1: Creating a Taxonomy Vocabulary......Page 97
Tag Clouds......Page 102
Activity 5.2: Creating a Path Alias......Page 105
Searching......Page 106
Activity 5.3: Enabling the Search functionality......Page 107
Summary......Page 109
What you will do......Page 110
Activity 6.1: Creating a Block......Page 111
Deciphering the Blocks page......Page 120
Determining the Block widths......Page 121
Activity 6.2: Creating a View......Page 122
On Blogging......Page 138
Activity 6.3: Creating a Blog entry......Page 139
Setting up a Blog......Page 142
Summary......Page 143
What you will do......Page 144
The Creative team......Page 145
Activity 7.1: Creating Roles......Page 146
Activity 7.2: Node Content for our Roles......Page 147
Permissions......Page 150
Activity 7.4: Granting Permissions......Page 151
The disgruntled team member......Page 155
Activity 7.5: Blocking......Page 156
Summary......Page 159
Creating content offline......Page 160
Activity 8.1: Pasting lightly-formatted text......Page 161
Activity 8.2: Creating a Blog entry remotely......Page 164
Activity 8.3: Using email to create a Story......Page 167
Activity 8.4: Using email to edit Node Content......Page 169
Summary......Page 172
Determining if the hosting account meets spec......Page 174
Downloading Drupal 6.x......Page 175
Creating the database......Page 177
Installing Drupal......Page 178
Low-priority help......Page 184
High-priority help......Page 185
Finding modules......Page 186
Finding Packt guides......Page 187
Index......Page 188
