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Creating Links

Drupalace — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:32:44 -0700

Links are how visitors get from one page to another. You'll probably put a lot of links in menus – a menu being just a list of links to other content. But you may also place links directly inside content text, or inside a block's text.

You may want links that point to a specific content item on your site, or a specific page on an outside web sites. Or you may want powerful links that pick up and return a list of multiple content items from your site's database.

Taxonomy Suggestions

Drupalace — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:24:47 -0700

Taxonomy suggestions

You can create whatever Terms you can think of a use for, grouped into whatever Vocabularies you like. There are infinite possibilities – which always makes it hard to get started.

General strategy

It's difficult to immediately envision all the ways to set up your taxonomy, and all the possibilities for using it. Here's a general suggestion for starting out:

Menus, Links, and Paths: Navigating the Site

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:09:39 -0700

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

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:01 -0700

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'.

Creating a page from a Single Node

Drupalace — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:42:51 -0700

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!

New EDAM pages: Placing Content on Pages

Drupalace — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Got a couple new Easy 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.)

Think you can admin a Drupal site?

Drupalace — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:55:52 -0800

I recently posted a modest Drupal Admin Manual for the non-technical admin.

Announcing the Drupalace.com Drupal Admin Manual!

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:02:58 -0800

Whew! 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.)

Free Aliases!

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:16:11 -0800

Below are useful built-in aliases, ready to take you to important pages. Just type the alias into your browser's address bar, after <your site domain>.

Drupal aliases

The following aliases come courtesy of Drupal:

The user login page. The first page you need as an administrator!

/user

List of registered users, with links to each individual user page.

Changing Color of Garland Theme

Drupalace — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:12:27 -0800

Garland is the name of a Theme made for Drupal 5. It has a nifty feature: an easy color selector that lets you change your color scheme right within the Theme configuration form; no programming required.

If you're using the Garland Theme, or a Theme based on Garland, here's how you can change your colors:

Change download method to 'public'

First, a quirk in the process: You probably have (and should have) your site set to handle file downloads via a private, not public, method. That would seem to have nothing to do with changing the Theme's color scheme, but it happens that the Garland scheme can only save new color information if the download method is set to 'public'.