Drupal
Sweet module love: the What Would Seth Godin Do? module
Posted April 7th, 2008 by DrupalaceThis is one of the oddest-named modules out there. Seth Godin is known to the Internet cognoscenti as a guru of modern marketing how-to, whether traditional biz or the latest "Web 2.0" developments. I read Seth's blog, and in his posts I always find some taken-for-granted business issue presented in a new light.
Updated Terminology page in Drupal Admin Manual
Posted March 17th, 2008 by DrupalaceI revisited the Terminology page in my Drupal Admin Manual, finding a few embarrassing spots in need of fixing. (The worst: a definition for "node" that confused "node" with "page".)
There, a little bit of clean-up finished. What other words are needed there to help the Drupal beginner?
New Drupal Admin Manual pages: Placing Content on Pages
Posted March 15th, 2008 by DrupalaceGot a couple new Drupal Admin Manual pages online, under the heading Placing Content on Pages. As with other pages, it's too basic to be of much use to experienced Drupaltons, but may be helpful for some brand-new beginners.
Also doing a little rearrangement of some other pages. (Ah, the beauty of a CMS here: I can shuffle Book pages around, and not have to worry about the internal links. Thank you, blue drop-headed one.)
If you find the Manual pages useful, please link to them or otherwise let newbies know. With more readers, I'll get all inspired to add more pages.
Menus, Links, and Paths: Navigating the Site
This is important stuff. One of the keys to grasping Drupal is to understand that creating content is just a small part of the picture. Creating a node is simple enough; telling users how to get to any node, via links in menus or elsewhere, is the start of building a site.
Creating a page from a List of Nodes
You'll often want to make a page not from a single node, but from a list of several nodes. I haven't yet come across a technical Drupal word for such a page, so I'll call it a 'node-list page'.
Node-list pages and the Drupal Way
There are several ways to make a node-list page. What's important is to first understand the way you don't do this in Drupal.
Creating a page from a Single Node
There's not much to cover here. As already discussed, when you create a node, Drupal automatically gives it a path (like node/53), or you can give it a path yourself (like product_catalog).
To create a page from that node, then, you don't really need to do anything special. Just go to the node's path (presumably via a menu item you've created for the purpose), and Drupal will whip up a page centered around that node, surrounded by the blocks, graphical elements, footer, and other accountrements you've set up for the site.
That's it!
Placing Content on pages
First, a tangent on the title of this page:
Following common writing practice, I'm capitalizing words in the titles of EDAM pages. This perhaps isn't a good decision, though, as elsewhere in the text I try to make some clear distinctions between certain capitalized and uncapitalized words.
How to export and import Book nodes?
Posted February 15th, 2008 by DrupalaceThink you can admin a Drupal site?
Posted February 7th, 2008 by DrupalacePicture the non-technical Drupal admin. Not the techie who sets the site up and all that, but the admin who comes along afterward, wanting only to create content and handle basic site management. A typical client for a Drupal site developer, for example.
What technical skills does such an admin require before grabbing the wheel of a speeding Drupal site, and what skills can he/she safely do without? I opine within.
Announcing the Drupalace.com Drupal Admin Manual!
Posted January 27th, 2008 by DrupalaceWhew! It's up!
About a year ago, I wrote a Book of how-to pages as a beginner's site admin manual, which I used to get clients up and running. I've now relocated the Book here, for your edification and amusement as well. (Not a mean task; read more here.)
