Drupal 6 content administration : maintain, add, and edit the content of your Drupal site with ease / J. Ayen Green ; reviewers, Edward Peters, John K. Murphy.

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"This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls. This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites"--Resource description page.

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Grand Tour; What will I learn?; What is Drupal?; What is a Content Management System?; Who is the target reader?; What will I do in the chapters?; A guided tour of Drupal; The Drupal front end; The Drupal back end; Create content; Content management; User management; Reports; Site building; Site configuration; Summary; Chapter 2: Content Creation; What you will learn; What you will do; Understanding content in Drupal; What is content?; Node Content types-the Story; Activity 2.1: Creating a Story; Activity 2.2: Editing Node Content

Content creation form fieldsNode Content types-Page; Activity 2.3: Creating a Drupal Page with a Rich Text Editor; Permissions in Drupal; Summary; Chapter 3: Content Seasoning; What you will learn; What you will do; Understanding Teasers; Activity 3.1: Creating a Teaser; Activity 3.2: Creating an external text link; The anatomy of a link; Using images in content; Activity 3.3: Working with images in content; Activity 3.3a: Uploading and embedding an image; Inserting an image if you don't have an editor; Activity 3.3b: Creating an image link; Embedding audio in Node Content

Activity 3.4: Adding audio contentLinking to downloadable content; Activity 3.5: Providing a link to downloadable content; Embedding video in Node Content; Activity 3.6: Adding video content; Summary; Chapter 4: Advanced Content Editing; What you will learn; What you will do; Enhancing layouts with HTML and CSS; HTML and tables; CSS in Drupal; Activity 4.1: Adding a CSS file to a theme; Activity 4.2: Creating a CSS file; Activity 4.3: Creating an 'include' file; Activity 4.4: Creating the Node Content header; Activity 4.5: Creating the Node Content Body; Revisions

Activity 4.6: Creating a RevisionSummary; Chapter 5: Making Content Findable; What you will learn; What you will do; Understanding Taxonomy; Activity 5.1: Creating a Taxonomy Vocabulary; Tag Clouds; Path Aliases; Activity 5.2: Creating a Path Alias; Searching; Activity 5.3: Enabling the Search functionality; Summary; Chapter 6: Rich Content Types; What you will learn; What you will do; The good side of being a Blockhead; Activity 6.1: Creating a Block; Deciphering the Blocks page; Determining the Block widths; Views; Activity 6.2: Creating a View; On Blogging

Activity 6.3: Creating a Blog entrySetting up a Blog; Summary; Chapter 7: Supporting an Editorial Team; What you will learn; What you will do; The Creative team; Roles; Activity 7.1: Creating Roles; Node Content types; Activity 7.2: Node Content for our Roles; Permissions; Activity 7.4: Granting Permissions; The disgruntled team member; Activity 7.5: Blocking; Summary; Chapter 8: Offline Content Creation; What you will learn; What you will do; Creating content offline; Activity 8.1: Pasting lightly-formatted text; Blogging; Activity 8.2: Creating a Blog entry remotely; Node Content via email

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