How to manage menus in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to manage menus
Click the Administer link
Scroll down
Click the Menus link
This is the Menus page where we can add, edit, or delete menus to our web site
Click the enable link
As we can see, some menus are currently disabled, let’s enable a disabled menu now
Scroll down
When ready, click Submit
We can edit the details of the menu item here if we wish
The menu item we just enabled now shows here
Now let’s disable a menu item, scroll down
Click the disable link for the menu you want to disable
Click Disable to confirm
Now click the Settings link
That’s it! The menu item has been disabled
Scroll down
After making any changes to the settings of the menus you wish, click Save Configuration here
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage menus in Drupal
How to manage modules in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to manage modules
Click the Administer link
Modules are plugins that extend Drupal’s core functionality. You can add modules fro blogs, search, comments, contact forms, forums, and more
Scroll down
Then click the Modules link here
This is the Modules main page
Let’s use the Search module… select it here
Then click Save configuration
That’s it! The Search module has has been activated, as we can see here
We can return to this page at any time to activate, deactivate, or uninstall modules
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage modules in Drupal
How to create menus in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Click the Administer link
Now let’s learn how to create a new menu
Scroll down
Click the Menus link
Then click Add Menu
Enter a Menu Name here… it must contain all lowercase letters and have no spaces
Then enter the title of the new menu here
Click Save when ready
Now let’s add items to our menu
Enter the path this menu item links to
Then enter a menu link title
You can optionally enter a description
Make sure you have the proper menu selected as your parent item
Click Save when ready
Let’s repeat the process and add a second menu item
Our new menu item has been created, which you can see here
There it is!
In order for the new menu to show up in your website, you must create a new block for it, and configure where it should go
Locate the Demo Menu, and enable it by configuring its location
Be sure to click Save blocks to save our configuration
There it is! The new menu we just created, along with the two menu items
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create menus in Drupal. Remember that you have to enable the menu block after creating it
Getting help in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Click the Administer link
Now let’s learn how to get help understanding and using Drupal
Then click Help
This is the Drupal help guide that provides context sensitive help on the use and configuratiuon of Drupal and its modules
Simply click any of the Help topics listed here to learn more about them
You can get further and more extensive help by going to the Drupal handbook… a link to which is located here
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to get help using Drupal from within your Drupal installation, or from the Drupal handbook
Setting up your account information in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to setup our account information
Click the My account link
Then click the Edit link
It is from here that you can change your username and email address…
This is the edit account page where we can configure our account
You can also change your password, and set your signature
When finished, click the submit button here
You can change the time zone as well
Click here to return to the home page
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup your account information
How to install Drupal from Fantastico
This tutorial assumes you’ve already launched the Fantastico application
Now let’s learn how to install Drupal
Click the Drupal link here
This is the Drupal installation screen
Drupal is an advanced portal with collaborative book, search engine friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, etc.
Click the New Installation link here
Enter the name of the directory you want to install in… or leave this field blank for installation in the root directory
Enter an admin username and password in the following boxes
Enter an admin email address
When ready, click here to install
Click here to finish the installation
That’s it! Drupal has been successfully installed in your account, and is ready for you to start configuring it
Click here to login to your new installation
Login using the admin username and password you assigned during installation
From here you can visit the site by clicking here…
… or remove the script from your account by clicking here
Your new installation is now listed here on the script’s home page
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to install Drupal to your account from within Fantastico
Maintaining your site in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to maintain our Drupal web site
Click the Administer link
Scroll down
Click Site maintenance
This is the Site Maintenance page. Under normal circumstances, your Site Status should be set to Online. If you wanted to work on the website and didn’t want people to have access to it while you worked, you would want to change this setting to Off-line
Scroll down
Click Save configuration
If you want, you can further personalize the Site off-line message here
The site is now off-line. Turning the site back online is just as easy
The site is now online. We can return to this page at any time to toggle between online and offline while working on the site
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to maintain your site in Drupal
How to manage pages in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to manage pages
Click Create content
To create a new page, click the Page link here
This is the Create Content page, where you can choose to create new pages or new stories for your web site
You would choose to create a page if you wanted to add a static page like a contact page or an about us page
Enter theTitle of the page here
Then enter the Body of the page here
Scroll down
Click Submit
That’s it! The new page has been created
Click the Edit link here
You can edit the title or body of the page from here…
… or you can remove the page from your web site by clicking Delete
Click Delete to confirm
That’s it! The page we created has now been deleted
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage pages in Drupal
How to change your password in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to change our Drupal password
Click the My account link
Then click the Edit link
Scroll down
This is the edit account page where we can configure our account and change our password
Enter a new password here
Confirm your password by entering it again here
Be sure the password match indicates “Yes”, otherwise you’ll have to re-enter your password in both boxes to ensure both entries match
Then click Save
The password has been successfully changed
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change your Drupal password
How to configure your site in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to configure our site
Click the Administer link
Then click Site configuration
Click the Administration theme link
This is the Site Configuration page where we can modify many aspects of our Drupal site
Click here to show the theme dropdown menu and seletct a new theme
This is the theme page where we can change the look of our Drupal Administration area
Click Save configuration
Let’s change back to the default theme
As you can see, our theme has changed to the bluemarine theme
That’s it! Our theme has been changed back to the default
Next, click the Clean URLs link
Click the Date and time link
If this option is enabled, the URL’s created by Drupal will be “clean” which will make them more efficient for search engine indexing. To enable Clean URLs, click here
Click the Error reporting link
This is the Date and Time area, where we can configure how the dates and times are displayed
On this page we can customize the error report pages
Click the Site information link
This is the Site Information page where we can set a name and slogan for our Drupal site
Enter a Name for the site here
Then enter your Email address
You can optionally enter a Slogan here
When finished, click Save configuration
That’s it! Our information has been changed and you can seeour new site name here
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to configure your site in Drupal
How to manage stories in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to manage stories
Click Create content
Click Story
This is the Create Content page, where you can choose to create new pages or new stories for your web site
Stories are articles that have a title, a teaser and a body… but can be extended by other modules. Stories may be used as a personal blog or for news articles
Enter theTitle of the story here
This is the page where we can create new stories on our Drupal site
Then enter the Body of the story here
Scroll down
hen ready, click the Submit button
Let’s see how to edit the new story, click Edit
That’s it! The new story has been created
We can Edit or Delete the story we just created on this page
Click Delete
Click Delete to confirm
That’s it! The new story has been deleted
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage stories in Drupal
How to manage themes in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to manage themes
Click the Administer link
Themes are an easy way to change the look and feel of your Drupal site
Scroll down
Click the Themes link here
Scroll down
Click here to enable a new theme…
… then click here to make this new theme the default theme
Scroll down
When finished, click Save configuration
That’s it! As you can see by the look of the website, our theme has changed
Let’s change our default theme back to the way it was
That’s all there is to it!
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage themes in Drupal
How to manage users in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Now let’s learn how to manage users
Click the Administer link
Scroll down
Click the Users link here
Let’s add a user now… click Add user
Enter a Username for the new user here
Then enter the new user’s Email address
Enter and confirm a password for the new user
When finished, click Create new account
Click the List link here
That’s it! A new user account has been created
Scroll down
Or we can delete the user… which we’re going to do now
Here is the user we just created
From here we can edit the user, including changing their password
Select Delete the selected users
Then click Update
Click here to confirm you want to delete the account
Click the User management link
The user we created has now been deleted
Then click the Roles link
Click the User settings link
A role is a way of giving selected permissions to a group of users… which you can do from here
… and from here you can change many settings for the users of your site
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage users in Drupal
How to manage blocks in Drupal
This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal
Click the Administer link
Now let’s learn how to manage blocks
Then click the Blocks link
This is the Blocks management page
Blocks are boxes of content that can be arranged and displayed in certain areas of your web page
Click the Add block link
Enter the Block description here
Scroll down
Click Save block
That’s it! The new block has been created
Now let’s edit the new block
Here we can see a list of all blocks in our website, including which ones are enabled…
… and which ones are currently disabled (including the New Block we just created)
Click here to show the new block in the left sidebar
When finished, click Save blocks
That’s all there is to it!
To delete the new block we just setup, click the delete link here
Click Delete to confirm
The block we created has now been deleted
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage blocks in Drupal