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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

Finding themes


Themes are what will make your Drupal site look different from everyone else's Drupal site. Themes can be free or commercial. The best place to start your search for a theme is on the Drupal web site, at drupal.org/project/Themes. You can also use your favorite search engine to find many themes. If you cannot find something that's quite what you're looking for, then you can pay a web designer to have a theme custom-developed for you. Make certain that the designer has specifically done Drupal work before. Being able to design a slick home page isn't good enough, because, as you have seen, Drupal has functional areas on the page, and you cannot simply take just any web page design and superimpose it on Drupal.