Drupal Basics for Content Managers:Drupal Basics for Content Managers:

Editing my Drupal Website Editing my Drupal Website    

Cynthia Mijares, cynthia.mijares@stanford.edu

Irina Zaks, irina.zaks@stanford.edu

In This Session: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

Definitions – web publishing processDefinitions – 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

Definitions - the Content 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.

Drupal ConceptsDrupal 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

Login / DashboardLogin / 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

Edit pageEdit 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

Add an eventAdd 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

Content from other sitesContent from other sites

• From Explore Courseshttps://explorecourses.stanford.edu/

• From Stanford Eventshttp://events.stanford.edu/

• From Stanford Newshttp://news.stanford.edu/

Questions?Questions?

Take Away MessageTake 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

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