Drupal Tutorial – How to Use Drupal for Beginners
Jun 02, 2012, by admin
How to start a Drupal website?
Logging into Drupal Admin Area
To log in your Drupal Admin area, after installing the Drupal application, you simply need to enter your administrator documentations into the User login form on your Drupal site:
How to create new content?
In order to add content for your Drupal web site, you need to click on the Add content link under your administrator area.
The Article option is appropriate for a blog, news or other time-sensitive content.
The Basic Page option allows you to create a static page;
Content Management
In order to manage the content structure constituents of your Drupal web site, you need to navigate to the Structure section under your administrator area.
In the following lines we will give a brief description of the options under this section:
Blocks – This functionality allows to manage the content that will be visualized through blocks on the sidebars and other regions of the web site. The blocks can be placed on the themes regions through a drag-and-drop interface. They are configured separately per each theme due to the different visualization setup.
Content types – Manage content types, including default status, front page promotions, comment settings and more. You can add new content types besides Basic Page and Article.
Menus – Allows to add new menu, edit existing ones, manage them , list, add and rearrange the menu links. You can also define the menu sources.
Taxonomy – You can manage the tagging, the categorization and classification of your content.
