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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

You can choose from many types of nodes: story posts, stand-alone pages, interlinked book-like pages, and many more.

Your node options

Head here:

Administration menu » Content Management » Create content

You'll see a list of all the node types you can create (which may vary by site). Here's what the chief ones are:

Page node

What it is: A generic page, with no specific assumptions on how you might use it.

This is the meat of what it's all about: creating new content for your web site. Let's jump in.

Once logged in, things will look different: you'll see a menu at the top of your site with your user name at the right, and a full list of links that drop down to more links. This is the Administrator menu, with links to content creation and administration forms that let you control nearly every aspect of your site.

The Administrator menu

There are many separate forms for administrative settings. The quickest way to get there is via the Navigation menu.

If you're the administrator, you can log in with your ID and password and begin administering the site.

Where to log in

Depending on your site setup, your front page, or another page on the site, may show a login block like this: