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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

Path Aliases


Every web page that you visit has an address, or URL, that is listed in the address bar of your web browser. If you've paid attention to the URLs in your web browser, then you've probably seen quite a few that look as though they span a paragraph in length. This doesn't affect the visitor's ability to get to the page. After all, clicking on a link is clicking a link, regardless of its size. However, if the person tries to remember the link, or needs to write it down, then it gets ugly. Beyond that, it's nice to have URLs that are actually meaningful for the search engine 'spiders' that crawl the Web and index everything.

This begs the question, "where do the URLs come from?" The answer, with regards to Drupal, is that they are created by the software, and they're not pretty. Here is the URL for the Soul Reading page that we just looked at.

http://mydomain.com/node/15

Not very helpful at all, is it? Fortunately, we can make this link much nicer to look at, and much more meaningful...