Creating an Online Newsletter with Drupal
By Michael J. Ross2008-07-11
Initial Theme
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The default theme for Drupal version 5.7 is "garland", which has a clean and simple look, but tends to be overused by Drupal-based sites whose administrators have not bothered to change the default. So for the sake of variety, we will use another built-in theme, "bluemarine", which is equally straightforward.
In Administer > Site building > Themes, enable the bluemarine theme, set it to be the default, and click the "Save configuration" button (for this and all subsequent configuration changes). You can always choose a different built-in theme later, or install and use a third-party theme, or even create your own. But for now, this one will suffice.
Before leaving the Themes section, click the "configure" link for bluemarine. Disable the shortcut icon, since we do not have a favicon for this test newsletter. If you have an image that you would like to use as your site logo, upload the image now. For this tutorial, we will be using a very basic image of a scroll, to match the site's name.
If you now log out of your Drupal administrator account, your site should look similar to the screenshot below.
(By the way, to avoid having to log in and out of your administrator account to make changes and then see the results, it saves time to stay logged in using one Web browser, for doing your administrator tasks, and using a different browser for viewing the site as a visitor not logged in.)
Tutorial Pages:
» Introduction
» Laying the Foundation
» Initial Theme
» The Homepage
» The Newsletter
» Access Control
» Navigation
