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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

About the Reviewers

Edward Peters has worked for all of his adult life with Initiatives of Change (IofC), an international trust-building network (www.iofc.org). Between 2002 and 2008 he managed IofC's global Internet operation, servicing the needs of activists in many countries and many languages. In 2008, he oversaw the move of the organization's proprietary Web CMS into the Drupal framework a technically-challenging task, given the objective of achieving a multi-lingual, multi-site system running off one codebase and one database, with user and content sharing across all sites.

Edward also does freelance web development work for a number of small clients (www.edwardpeters.co.uk) and is moving several of them into the Drupal framework. He attended DrupalCons in Boston and Washington D.C., and is enthusiastic about Drupal and the Drupal community.

He served as a technical reviewer for another Packt publication, Learning Drupal 6, by Matt Butcher.

John K. Murphy is a graduate of the University of West Virginia and has been wrapped up in computers and software development since the 1980's. When he is not buried in a book or jumping out of an airplane, he works as an IT consultant.

John lives with his wife and two children in Pittsburgh, PA and is currently obsessing about the Internet of Things.

 

This book is dedicated to Scott Corley, one of those people who can see the forest for the trees. He's rescued me more than once, but most notably the first time, in college, when, with his gentle and diplomatic flair, he remarked, "Hey [expletive deleted], have you noticed that you're busting your butt in chemistry, and meanwhile you're acing the computer stuff without studying?"

 
 --Thanks, Fonzo