Drupal Care Package

Overview

This care package collects some useful resources either created by previous assistants or from the Internet.

Adding & editing contents

Adding & editing contents are the most basic uses of Drupal

• Video tutorial
• Adding content on Drupal 7

Create your own content types

Sometimes the original content types cannot fulfill your all requirements, you may want a new content type to reach your expectations. For example, you may want to create a FAQ page, which should contains several FAQ entries. Thus you can create a new custom content type "FAQ", which has "Question" and "Answer" fields instead of "Title" and "Body".

• Create custom content type - This tutorial lists the procedures you need to create a custom content type.
• Creating News Items and a News List - An example of creating a "News" custom content type

Show content on a page in the way you want

When you have your own content type, the next step is to show entries of the content type on your website. Drupal module "View" is a handy tool to manage this issue.

• First of all, make sure that the View module is already enabled.
  • Management Menu(on the top of the scree) -> Modules -> Views
  • Make sure that "Views UI" and "Views" are enabled
• A totally beginner tutorial to Views for Drupal 7
• Video Tutorial

"I want a few pictures on the left one third of the screen and articles on the right two third."

Then you have to use the more advanced "Panels" module.

• A series of video tutorials that teach you how to create more customized pages.
• Creating a new front page - Yes you can customize your front page too.

Organize your site with Menu

It's not a good idea to put every thing on one page.You need to redirect website visiter to different pages.

• Basic content types
• Views or Panels

Organic Groups

• Organic Groups