Creating an Online Newsletter with Drupal
By Michael J. Ross2008-07-11
The Homepage
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The previous screenshot still shows, on the homepage, the initial welcome message after a fresh Drupal installation, because there is still no content for Drupal to publish on the homepage. The first content we will add is the homepage text.
While logged in as the administrator, go to Create content > Page, and set an appropriate title for the homepage text. In this example, we will simply be using dummy text for the page body. Under the "Publishing options" section, enable "Promoted to front page" so the text is displayed on the homepage, as seen below.
The text that you choose for your homepage should ideally explain why visitors to your site should become subscribers. In addition, if you plan on charging them a subscription fee to read your newsletter's material, then this page would be the logical place to put some sort of payment button. In this example, we added a linked button that takes the prospective subscriber to the PayPal Subscriptions page. (The details of setting up a PayPal account and creating a PayPal Buy Now button, are beyond the scope of this tutorial. All of that information can be easily obtained from the online PayPal documentation.)
Tutorial Pages:
» Introduction
» Laying the Foundation
» Initial Theme
» The Homepage
» The Newsletter
» Access Control
» Navigation
