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05-24-2006, 10:08 AM
IMW CMS Help Thread
How to Create Content
Once you have logged-in, you're ready to start posting content.
At the top of your personal menu, you'll find a link called "create content". Click this and you'll see a list of the types of content you can create. There are various types of content that you can post using Drupal. Many of these are organized into what are called "nodes". Basically, you can think of a node as the content of a page. This might be, for instance, an article. Content is added or updated through web page forms. So to add an article, you bring up a form, enter text into it (like the title and content of an article), and hit a button to submit the form.
Content on Drupal websites is usually organized using categories through a system called "taxonomy". A taxonomy has different "terms" that are used as categories for articles. When you're adding an article, you might find a drop-down list of topics. By selecting one, you choose where on the site to categorize your article. If this seems hard to relate to, you can think of topics as being like folders on your hard drive--they help to organize content, so that you can find similar things in the same place.
Some Drupal sites are set up so that when you submit content it goes into a "submission queue". Content in this queue is read by other users who have a moderator role on the site. They will review the content and, if it is accepted, "publish" your contribution.
How to Create Content
Once you have logged-in, you're ready to start posting content.
At the top of your personal menu, you'll find a link called "create content". Click this and you'll see a list of the types of content you can create. There are various types of content that you can post using Drupal. Many of these are organized into what are called "nodes". Basically, you can think of a node as the content of a page. This might be, for instance, an article. Content is added or updated through web page forms. So to add an article, you bring up a form, enter text into it (like the title and content of an article), and hit a button to submit the form.
Content on Drupal websites is usually organized using categories through a system called "taxonomy". A taxonomy has different "terms" that are used as categories for articles. When you're adding an article, you might find a drop-down list of topics. By selecting one, you choose where on the site to categorize your article. If this seems hard to relate to, you can think of topics as being like folders on your hard drive--they help to organize content, so that you can find similar things in the same place.
Some Drupal sites are set up so that when you submit content it goes into a "submission queue". Content in this queue is read by other users who have a moderator role on the site. They will review the content and, if it is accepted, "publish" your contribution.