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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

The Creative team


Let's take a quick look at Drupal's jargon regarding teams.

  • Users —the logins of the individuals that make up a team.

  • Roles —the different 'job descriptions' based on a person's responsibilities

  • Permissions—the granting of authorization to perform a Drupal function

As the system administrator, you are authorized to perform any action within the Drupal environment, but you would not want every member of a team to have this absolute capability, or else you would soon have chaos.

Let's first create a team. Then, we will look at assimilating that team into the Drupal environment.

Our Creative team will be made up of individuals, each having one or more of the responsibilities mentioned below (Note: the titles are not Drupal terms):

  • Copy Writers—are the writers of short articles

  • Feature Writers—are the writers of long pieces, in which style matters as much as content

  • Ad Writers—are the writers of internal and external advertising that will appear in blocks

  • Proofreaders...