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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

Creating content offline


Sometimes, we'd like to use the grammatical and formatting tools available in an application such as MS Word or OpenOffice to create content, instead of typing directly into Drupal (the reason being that an Internet connection may not always be available).

Activity 8.1: Pasting lightly-formatted text

Cutting and pasting is an activity that most computer users are familiar with. Even so, there are a couple of considerations when doing it into Drupal, and using rich text. Let's give it a try!

  1. 1. Let's create some formatted text. Pretty much any text editor will do. We'll be using OpenOffice here, since that's what I'm using right now. We'll just create two paragraphs of lightly-formatted text (indentation, bullets, italics, and so on), as shown below.

  2. 2. Next, we'll select the Create content option from the Admin menu, and create a new Story.

    Note

    At some point you'll want to start remembering the URLs for common Drupal activities. To create Node Content, simply...