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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

Using images in content


"A picture's worth a thousand words"

Even though this saying pre-dates the Internet, it still applies today. However, with 'inflation' on the rise, it's probably more like 100 words, or about twenty or so lines in a column, which is as much as you want to have without some kind of image to hold the reader's attention.

Inserting links into images in content so that the image referenced by the link will be shown, is fairly simple to do in Drupal. However, uploading the image file into a directory on the server where the web site is located can be a challenge. But don't worry; I'm here to help. The challenge is getting the upload service configured properly, and that's the administrator's job, not yours. Once configured, the upload is simple.

If your site doesn't have an editor or a module that provides uploading (FCKeditor does, as long as the upload service is enabled), then you'll need to resort to something more manual, such as FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

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