Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The Grand Tour
Chapter 2: Content Creation
Chapter 3: Content Seasoning
Chapter 4: Advanced Content Editing
Chapter 5: Making Content Findable
Chapter 6: Rich Content Types
Chapter 7: Supporting an Editorial Team
Chapter 8: Offline Content Creation
Appendix A: Installing Drupal
Appendix B: Where to Find...
Index
- 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 fields
- Node 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
- Activity 3.3: Working with images in content
- Embedding audio in Node Content
- Activity 3.4: Adding audio content
- Linking 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 Revision
- Summary
- 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 entry
- Setting 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
- Activity 8.3: Using email to create a Story
- Activity 8.4: Using email to edit Node Content
- Summary
- Appendix A: Installing Drupal
- Determining if the hosting account meets spec
- Downloading Drupal 6.x
- Creating the database
- Installing Drupal
- Appendix B: Where to Find...
- Where to find help
- Low-priority help
- Medium-priority help
- High-priority help
- Finding documentation
- Finding modules
- Finding themes
- Finding Packt guides
- Where to find help



