Technical session on Advanced Webmaster Administration

Tech

Who Is She

How do you administer Who Is She

Advanced Webmaster administration is not always easy – but fun!

Understanding the roles of the

different user typesDifferent views if

you’re a webmaster or an editor

Views, blocks and nodes –basic Drupal

The roles of different usertypes

With a CMS roles and usertypes are important!

4. Editor = The editors, logged in have a different view, with more options, and canadjust some of the sites settings, not all.

5. Webmaster = Logged in does all the editingof the fields etc., may change very much of the site, must have technical skills and understand the setup. Can not change all –see next usertype!

6. Überadmin – not a usertype shownanywhere – can change everything. At present our webdeveloper.

1. Anonymous user = The visitor of the site, not logged in, browsing around the site

2. Expert = The experts, can have access to modifytheir profiles, or not (if not they are treated as 1. but still have password etc, which can be of no importance if the editor does all of the editing).

Explore the usertypes

Different views if you’re a webmaster or an editor

The webmaster must think about what the editor sees!

This has to do with permissions!

Can be changed by the the Webmaster in most cases, butsomethings can only be allowed by the Überadmin

Similar but not the same!

Views, Blocks and Nodesbasic Drupal stuff

Most things in Drupal can be configured without programming skills!

» Views – take a look under Structure – and click a view to edit. Not all views are here!

» Blocks – access it under Structure – Blocks . Here are the mainareas of the site’s design: Header, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar, Content and Footer. Note: These are also in the design files! Check how to configure these, and note the difference betweenthis and the administration of menus. Also note the disabledones!!

» Nodes – What are nodes? Allmost everything! A profile – the arabic version is 1 node – the english another. A page is a node.

» From Drupal.org: ”A single website could contain many types of content, such as informational pages, news items, polls, blogposts, real estate listings etc. In Drupal, each item of content is called a node, and each node belongs to a single content type, which defines various default settings for nodes of that type, such as whether the node is published automatically and wheter comments are permitted.”

VIEWS/BLOCKS/NODES

It’s good to make an offlineDrupal server and work with that rather than the real production server!

Download Aquias Drupal/MySQL package

?What do you do in administration and what do you do in theming?You adjust the behaviour in administration, you adjust the look and feel in theming. Theming is the technician – webmaster –implementing design, by the way of input from a designer or the editors or by demand of the users. Theming is not traditional design – but involves elements of design woven together with an

understanding of how the Drupal site works, in code and workflow.

Do you remember your css?