Friday, February 3, 2012

Building web sites using Drupal

Keywords: content management, site building, site configuration, user management, reports, comments, content, content types, post settings, RSS, taxonomy, blocks, menus, modules, themes, access rules, permissions, roles, user settings, actions, administration theme, clean URL, date & time, error reporting, filesystem, image toolkit, input format, logging & alerts, performance, site information, site maintenance, recent log entries, available updates, status reports, access denied & page not found.

1) After downloadin and/or installing Drupal, you log in as uer admin and change the existing password. To do that after logging in with the existing password, you click Administer (in the navigation menu), then choose User management, the click Users, From the users names list, choose admin, then click the Edit tab on the top, enter the required data including the new password (twice), then click save.
2) Log in as administrater (admin), click Create content, then choose Page, enter the title (eg. Front page), click Input format (close o the bottom of the page) and choose Full HTML, now enter the body of the front page. Go tothe Publishing options and click Front page (now this page will be promoted and will be the first page of your site), click save.
3) Click administer, from the Site building section, choose Menus, click Navigation (and leave the other 2 for now, primary & secondary links), click the Add item tab close to the top of the page, enter the Link and Title (eg.../drupal/node/1 and Front page as title) and now click Save. Now you have Front page menu item added to the Navigation menu.
4) Moving page blocks around the web page: click Administer, then click Blocks from the Site building section. In Block table heading in front of you, locate User login, then go to the Region table header click the drop down list and pick Right sidebar, click Save blocks. The login block is moved from the left to the right.
5) Click Menus, choose Primary link, click Add item tab, enter link (eg. ../drupal/node/1) enter title (eg. Front page). Now youwill havea link to the front page displayed at the top of the page. The secondary links would display at lower location (underneath the primary links) on the page.
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