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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 6. Rich Content Types

Looking back at what we have learned so far, we can have an article as a Page on our web page, or a few articles (or article teasers) as Stories. These two types of Node Content will probably represent the bulk of the content on most sites, but there are additional, richer forms of content that we can spruce up our site with, and that's just what we're going to do!

What you will learn

In this chapter, we will learn how to enhance our Drupal site using:

  • Blocks— the tiny building blocks of a content-rich site

  • Views— the grouping of Stories of similar content on one page

  • Blogs— a Web-based interactive diary