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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

Enhancing layouts with HTML and CSS


We will be using HTML and CSS to style our next piece of Node Content. A thorough discussion of HTML and CSS is beyond the scope of this book, but let's have a short primer on the pieces that we will be using.

HTML and tables

You may have seen tables in web pages. They resemble the row and column structure of a spreadsheet. We're going to use the Rich Text Editor to create a table, but knowing the structure will make it easier for us to edit it, and to troubleshoot it (if necessary). The following table gives us an overview of the structure.

A table in HTML is made up of a minimum of three types of tags. They are: table, row, and cell. Each table has one or more rows, and each row has one or more cells. So, a table, like the one we just saw, is structured as:

Table
Row
	Cell
	Cell
Row
	Cell
	Cell

This same table is created using HTML, as follows:

<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Total Sales</th>
<th>Total Expenses</th>
</tr...