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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

Searching


Aside from the navigational aids, one of the landmarks that site visitors always expect to see is the search box. It's very frustrating when a site's navigation doesn't offer a path to where you want to go, and there's no search box to be found.

Activity 5.3: Enabling the Search functionality

The Search module is included with Drupal. All that we need to do is to turn it on, and tell Drupal where we want it to appear.

  1. 1. We'll select the Site Building option from the Administer menu, and in the Site Building option, we'll select the Modules option.

  2. 2. Some way down the page is the heading named Core. The modules listed in this section are part of the Drupal installation. We select the checkbox next to Search, and then click on the Save Configuration button at the bottom of the page.

  3. 3. Next, we'll click on the Blocks option from the Administer menu.

  4. 4. On the Blocks page, towards the bottom of the Disabled section, we find a row for the Search form option. Beside the name, we'll click...