Installing and Configuring Drupal 6.1

By Michael J. Ross
2008-03-24


Administering Drupal

In the navigation menu, located on the left-hand side of the page (in the default theme), choose "Administer". This will display the various sections of the administration account.

In this area, there are six subsections, which allow you to make any desired changes to the appearance and functionality of your Drupal site:

• Content management — View and edit comments, stories, content types, user postings, Web feed, and content "taxonomy" (how stories are named and organized).
• Site building — Manage blocks (regions of pages), menus, modules (into which is divided Drupal's functionality), and themes.
• Site configuration — Modify the administrative settings of your site, including date and time, input formats, and error reporting.
• User management — Define and manage users, their registration requirements, roles, permissions, and access rules.
• Reports — Examine log events, errors, and a detailed site status report.
• Help — Access links to an online Drupal handbook, and local information on many aspects of Drupal (from blocks to users).

In this tutorial, due to space limitations, we will not cover the details of all six subsections and their 31 subsections, but we will make some common modifications.

Tutorial Pages:
» Installing and Configuring Drupal 6.1
» Drupal
» System Requirements
» Downloading Drupal
» Installing Drupal
» Configuring Drupal
» Administering Drupal
» Basic Site Customization
» More Resources

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