drupal

The world of web site design is extremely diverse in it's options. And the reality is that there is not one option that is right for everyone. I will give a few cases here that explain general situations that will hopefully help you understand how much you should spend on your web site.

We had an excellent time at DrupalCon San Francisco! What an exciting time it is for the project and we are excited to be supporting it. The project is expanding rapidly and we were pleased to see over 3000 attendees at the conference. That is over 2000 more than are registered for the Wordpress conference that is taking place right now in San Francisco, which to us is just another sign that Drupal will be the premier CMS on the web.

After years of experience with numerous Content Management Systems (CMS) Yooweb has made the decision to provide support primarily for the Drupal CMS. We have found the greatest flexabilty for our clients in Drupal as well as the best community support. Wordpress finishes in a close second and we will continue to use it primarily for small sites and blogs but for anything larger we will be using Drupal. We look forward to focusing our efforts more on Drupal and participating in its dynamic community and development.

User permissions allow you to control what users have access to on your site. For example, you can allow anonymous users on your site to see content but only allow authenticated users to post comments. To view your user permissions go to:

Administration menu » User management » Permissions

Depending on the functionality of your drupal site the amount of permissions that can be set could be vast. You will want to carefully go through this page to determine which user roles should have access to which parts of your web site.

Roles allow you to fine tune the access that users have to your site. There are many other uses of roles such as having a certain role automatically subscribed to a newsletter. Roles are a way to categorize your users and define what each group has access to. Examples of roles include: anonymous user, authenticated user, moderator, author, administrator and so on. They can really be anything you want!

By default, Drupal comes with two user roles:

Before you do any user management you will need to set up the user settings as desired for your site. It's possible that this was set up for you by your project manager already and you may not want to make any changes here but it's important to know what options you have just in case you do want to change the settings. Head to:

Administration menu » User management » User settings

People visiting your web site have the ability to create an account, log in, participate in whatever they have permissions to participate in, and log out. There is a lot of power in the drupal user management system.

In order to administer the users on your site head to

Administration menu » User management » Users

Plan to be managing multiple users on your site? Then this section is for you.

User managment has almost become a norm in the web site world. Before a web site was simply a billboard where you could post information for people to read about you or your organization. Now we don't create web sites only as an informational hub but as a social network where people can not only read what you do but participate in what you do.

Lets dive in:

...for the beginning or even completely non-technical administrator of a Drupal site.

This manual is widely incomplete, and is very much a work in progress. It'll keep changing as we find better ways to do things; as viewers report problems, solutions, and discoveries; and as Drupal itself keeps improving. Please let us know if you find errors.