drupal

How do people get from one page on your site to another? Links, links, links!

But what is a link? It's just an instruction for the browser to jump from the current page address, to a new page address.

You can create links to any page whose address you know. So how do you find, or create, the address for a page? If you want to know, here's your guide. (And if you already know the address for your target page, and are ready to create a link to it, jump ahead to Creating Links.)

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.

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:

Words about words

Tags are power

You've got content, but where does it go? How do visitors find content and move around your site? Here are your guides to tagging content with keywords, creating menus and other links to content, arranging menus and blocks, and other tasks related to the "where" of your content.

The previous pages outline the entire process of adding images to a node.

• Using Text Editors: FCKeditor
• Using Images with FCKeditor
• Using Image Tools: IMCE

Summarizing those pages, here's a quick guide to one common task: inserting an image from your local computer into a site node. Using FCKeditor and IMCE

In addition to the text content that you put into your site, you'll want to make files available to the site: graphics to appear in your nodes, files that visitors can download, etc. Here's a quick look at where these files live on the web server, and how you place files there:

Creating a Blog Entry node

Once you're logged in, click here:

Administration menu » Content management » Create content » Blog entry

Beyond that, the procedure for creating a Blog Entry is the same as creating a Page. Follow the instructions on Create a Page Node, replacing "Page" with "Blog Entry".

Page node or Story node? What's the difference?

As explained here, the developers of Drupal originally had different plans for Page nodes and Story nodes, but they've evolved to become essentially the same thing. The names are different, and you can set your site to handle Page nodes differently from Story nodes (for example, you might use Page nodes for content that readers can comment on, and Story nodes for content that doesn't allow reader comment), but otherwise they work identically.

Creating a Page node

Once you're logged in, click here:

Administration menu » Content management » Create content » Page

The "Submit page" form that appears will have fields including those described below. What fields appear will depend on your site setup; many of the below many not appear for you, or may appear in slightly different order.

Fill in the fields as you like. (Fields with a red asterisk are required; others are optional.) Here's an overview of the fields:

Title