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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

Linking to downloadable content


As we saw earlier, another use of links is to provide a link to content, such as a PDF file, that can be downloaded. In this way, you can provide value-added documents to your site visitor. The more useful content you can provide, the more the search engines will 'like' your site, and the more people will use it. With our site, the site owner might want to provide a printable catalog, or bonus material for people who buy one of his CDs.

Activity 3.5: Providing a link to downloadable content

In this activity, we will use some of the techniques that we learned earlier in the chapter, and create a link in our Node Content for the visitor to download a PDF file. We're going to use an image as the link.

  1. 1. Navigate to and edit the Soul Reading Node Content.

  2. 2. Ensure that your text editor is activated.

  3. 3. Go to the end of the article, and add a new line.

  4. 4. Click on the Insert/Edit Image button.

  5. 5. Next, click on the Browse button.

  6. 6. On the Browse screen, we will...