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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

On Blogging


We've looked at Views, which gives us a means for displaying Node Content in a different way than Drupal normally gives us. Another example of presenting information to your visitors in a different way is a Blog. A blog is an online diary. Blogs can add richness and intimacy to a site by bringing the site visitors closer to the author. Blogs are meant to contain informal content, as opposed to the typical content found in a Story or a Page.

There are some administrative requirements in Drupal for establishing a blog or blogs. The specifics are beyond the scope of this book, but a summary is provided after the next activity. If you do not see Blog entry as a Node Content type in your admin menu, then it has not yet been enabled by the administrator, or your user role does not have the permissions to use it.

Activity 6.3: Creating a Blog entry

Let's now create a test Blog entry to explore the process of creating a blog.

  1. 1. From the admin menu, we'll select Create content, just as...