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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

Tag Clouds


In computer terminology, a Cloud is a gathering of loosely-related items with something in common. An example of such a phenomenon is a playground at a fast-food restaurant where several highways intersect. The kids aren't necessarily tied by ethnicity, nationality, age, sex, citizenship, home town, destination, nor 'herd'. The two commonalities are that they're all kids and all Homo Sapiens (although, they might seem like they are from Alpha Centauri).

A Tag Cloud is a grouping of terms that don't necessarily have any relationship to each other with regards to their meaning or context. The only factor that typically links the terms is that they are all related to the content on the same web site.

Tag Clouds are normally represented as a rectangular region in which the terms appear as different typefaces and font-sizes, so that each term stands out from its neighbor. We're going to use two types of Drupal Tag Clouds, which means that two different modules will be used in order...