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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

The good side of being a Blockhead


What if we want an advertisement, or other such content of the same size? We could use HTML to add it to a Page or Story. However, what if we want them to appear in many Stories without making a copy in each one, or if we want them to appear outside of the Story's margins, such as on the side of the web page? What if we want the advertisement or other content to be independent of the Page or the Story? The answer to these questions is: Blocks. Let's create a Block to advertise a CD. We already have an article about the CD, but this Block will be used where the article cannot.

Activity 6.1: Creating a Block

Let's take a step-by-step approach to create a Block to advertise the CD.

  1. 1. Log in as the admin, and then select the Site building menu.

  2. 2. The Site building menu will be similar to the following screenshot (it may vary based on the installed modules). Next, we click on the Blocks option.

  1. 3. The Blocks page looks somewhat different from other admin pages...