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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By : J. Ayen Green
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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By: J. Ayen Green

Overview of this book

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content. In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it. This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls. This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Drupal 6 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 4. Advanced Content Editing

In the previous chapters, we have learned how to create Node Content and apply minor editing to it. The level of control over the appearance of the text that we saw is fine if only some basic changes are called for (such as underlining a word here, making a word bold there, while retaining the default top-down paragraph style). However that's not always the case. Sometimes you may need to do something different that requires some customization to your Node Content, or perhaps to instances of similar Node Content.

Aside from the requirements affecting appearance, there are also times when a Node Content piece is a 'living' document, or 'content by committee'. In either case, it would be handy to have more than one version of the Node Content available—and you can, à la Revisions!

What you will learn

In this chapter, you will learn about:

  • Enhancing layouts with HTML and CSS

  • Creating a content include file

  • Enabling a content include file with PHP

  • Revising Node...