Drupal series

Getting help with Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

1) Click the Administer link

Now let’s learn how to get help understanding and using Drupal

2) Then click Help

This is the Drupal help guide that provides context sensitive help on the use and configuratiuon of Drupal and its modules

3) Simply click any of the Help topics listed here to learn more about them

4) You can get further and more extensive help by going to the Drupal handbook… a link to which is located here

This is the end of the tutorial.  You now know how to get help using Drupal from within your Drupal installation, or from the Drupal handbook

Drupal series

Setting up your account information in Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

1) Click the My account link

Now let’s learn how to setup our account information

2) Then click the Edit link

This is the edit account page where we can configure our account. It is from here that you can change your username and email address…

You can also change your password, and set your signature

You can change the time zone as well. When finished, click the submit button here

This is the end of the tutorial.  You now know how to setup your account information

Drupal series

How to install Drupal from Fantastico

This tutorial assumes you’ve already launched the Fantastico application.

1) Now let’s learn how to install Drupal. Click the Drupal link located in the left sidebar.

2) This is the Drupal installation screen. Drupal is an advanced portal with collaborative book, search engine friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, etc. Click the New Installation link.

3) Enter the name of the directory you want to install in or leave this field blank for installation in the root directory.

4) Enter an admin username and password in the following boxes.

5) Enter an admin email address

6) When ready, click here to install

7) Click here to finish the installation

That’s it! Drupal has been successfully installed in your account, and is ready for you to start configuring it

8) Click here to login to your new installation

9) Login using the admin username and password you assigned during installation

Your new installation is now listed here on the script’s home page. From here you can visit the site by clicking here… or remove the script from your account by clicking here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to install Drupal to your account from within Fantastico

 
 

Drupal series

Maintaining your site in Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

1) Click the Administer link

Now let’s learn how to maintain our Drupal web site

2) Click Site maintenance

This is the Site Maintenance page. Under normal circumstances, your Site Status should be set to Online. If you wanted to work on the website and didn’t want people to have access to it while you worked, you would want to change this setting to Off-line

If you want, you can further personalize the Site off-line message here

3) Click Save configuration

The site is now off-line. Turning the site back online is just as easy

The site is now online.  We can return to this page at any time to toggle between online and offline while working on the site

This is the end of the tutorial.  You now know how to maintain your site in Drupal

Drupal series

How to manage menus in Drupal

This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal

1) Click the Administer link

Now let’s learn how to manage menus

2) Click the Menus link

This is the Menus page where we can add, edit, or delete menus to our web site

As we can see, some menus are currently disabled, let’s enable a disabled menu now

3) Click the enable link

We can edit the details of the menu item here if we wish

4) When ready, click Submit

The menu item we just enabled now shows here

Now let’s disable a menu item, scroll down

5) Click the disable link for the menu you want to disable

6) Click Disable to confirm

7) That’s it!  The menu item has been disabled. Now click the Settings link

8) After making any changes to the settings of the menus you wish, click Save Configuration here

This is the end of the tutorial.  You now know how to manage menus in Drupal