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Drupal Basics for Content Managers: Editing my Drupal Website

Drupal Basics for Content Managers: Editing my Drupal Website. Cynthia Mijares, cynthia.mijares@stanford.edu Irina Zaks , irina.zaks@stanford.edu. In This Session:. Basic Terms and Concepts single page, landing page, blocks, menus Content types and Fields

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Drupal Basics for Content Managers: Editing my Drupal Website

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  1. Drupal Basics for Content Managers:Editing my Drupal Website Cynthia Mijares, cynthia.mijares@stanford.edu Irina Zaks, irina.zaks@stanford.edu

  2. In This Session: • Basic Terms and Concepts • single page, landing page, blocks, menus • Content types and Fields • Categories (taxonomy) and Relationships • Login / Roles / User Permissions • Hands-on Editing site • Q and A

  3. Definitions – web publishing process • The web publishing process allows non-technical people to not only read the web, but also to submit their content to the web; to sort, tag, and classify it; and work on the content collaboratively • The tools/software that enables web publishing is called content management system (CMS). CMSs have been in use / development for about a decade • Today we will give examples of how create content and edit a Drupal site

  4. Definitions - the Content • Content can be news, events info, a person’s profile, pictures from a trip, new publications, or more specialized content, for example, medical records, properties of novel nano-materials, botanical plants info. • In addition to common attributes each content type has its own custom attributes. • All types of content need to be sorted, tagged, and displayed in a various ways, for example, alphabetically • Different content types have predefined relationships; for example, publications have authors who have profiles and who participate in events.

  5. Drupal Concepts • Enter data only once – display where needed, no duplicate entry of same info on different pages • Different Content Types (course, faculty, events, news, publications, photos, etc.) have different fields for data entry (courses have course numbers, people have related departments) • Relationships can be established between different content types (course have related person who is teaching this course) • Some pages are compiled from information submitted via individual entries - you do not edit these pages directly

  6. Login / Dashboard • http://sites.stanford.edu/demo • Login / SUNet ID Login authenticates a person and gives them access to administer the site based on the Role they have been assigned • User Dashboard - edit your information, see your entries

  7. Edit page • https://sites.stanford.edu/demo/text-content • Text (rich text vs plain text) • Add link • Attach File • Image • Remove image • Revisions • Page URL auto generated

  8. Add an event • Add an event • See the event on the calendar • See the event on the Events page • Edit the event • Give it an Audience

  9. Content from other sites • From Explore Courseshttps://explorecourses.stanford.edu/ • From Stanford Eventshttp://events.stanford.edu/ • From Stanford Newshttp://news.stanford.edu/

  10. Questions?

  11. Take Away Message • It’s easy to edit a Drupal site! • Stanford Tech Training http://techtraining.stanford.edu • Community Support drupallers@lists.stanford.edu Drop-in Help (monthly) http://helpsu.stanford.edu • Stanford Web Services http://webservices.stanford.edu

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