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Learning Drupal 8

By : Nick Abbott
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Learning Drupal 8

By: Nick Abbott

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, while offering countless new ways to tailor and deploy your content to the Web. Drupal 8 allows user to easily customize data structures, listings, and pages, and take advantage of new capabilities for displaying data on mobile devices, building APIs, and adapting to multilingual needs. The book takes you step by step through building a Drupal 8 website. Start with the basics, such as setting up a local “stack” development environment and installing your first Drupal 8 site, then move on to image and media handling, and extending Drupal modules. Push your knowledge by getting to grips with the modular nature of Drupal, and learning to extend it by adding new functionalities to create your new modules. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop and manage a modern and responsive website using Drupal.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Drupal 8
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Drupal 8 user interface


In this chapter, we will walk you through the key parts of the standard Drupal 8 User Interface (UI) UI focusing our attention on the main visible components like the Toolbar, Shortcuts and Drupal's main administrative menu, the Administration menu.

As you work through this chapter, please keep in mind that the intention here is merely to provide you with a quick overview and that much more detail and guided tutorial assignments will follow in later chapters.

Logging out

When you first visit your new Drupal 8 site immediately after installation at: http://drupal-8.dd:8083 you will do so, from the point of view of the admin user, that is, you are logged in as the special user with user ID (uid) set to 1.

To see the site from an anonymous site visitor's perspective, click on the Log out link at the top right of the page:

Logging in

You will now see only the login link at the top right corner of the page:

Log back in using the credentials you set up in Chapter 2, Installation...