Account Settings

Once you have registered with a site, you can change settings to control information about yourself and also your use and experience of the site. To see what tweaks you can make to your account, log in and then click on my account in the navigation block (that's the one titled with your user name). Click on the edit tab.

If your site does not have a navigation block, you can access your user information at http://<your site name>/?q=user

Account Settings You may see a different collection of settings than is presented here, depending on what features have been enabled on your site.

• password
• Enter a new password in both fields to set it. Drupal sends you a default password that is often hard to remember, so it is recommended that you change your password to something you can easily remember.
• block configuration
• The site administrator may make some blocks (chunks of content that are usually displayed in a left and/or right column) optional. You can enable and disable the display of these blocks by checking and unchecking the boxes next to them.
• signature
• If comments are enabled, you will be able to set a default signature. This will be copied into new comments for you automatically, but may still be edited.
• time zone
• Your site administrator may allow users to set their time zone. This will cause all dated content on the site to display in local time, according to the offset you enter here.
• theme
• A "theme" is the basic look and feel of a Drupal site. Sometimes a particular site will have more than one theme installed. If the site administrator has made more than one theme available, you will be able to select what you would like the default theme to be for your account.

As mentioned earlier, different site-settings will cause different fields to be displayed on your user account page. See the documentation for individual modules for instructions on how to use these additional options.

Additional Information. Aside from the account settings tab, you may also see additional tabs, titled according to the information they contain. Some examples might include "Personal Information", "Workplace", etc. These are controlled by the profile module, and allow you to enter more information about yourself. Please see the profile module for more information on this.

Profile: extending user account information

The profile module allows you to define custom fields (such as country, real name, age, ...) in the user profile. This permits users of a site to share more information about themselves, and can help community-based sites to organize users around profile fields.

The following types of fields can be added to the user profile:

• single-line textfield
• multi-line textfield
• checkbox
• list selection
• freeform list
• URL
• date

You can

• view user profiles
• administer profile settings: administer >> settings >> profiles

Types of Content

• A page is a whole Web page. It's best for static content.
• A story is a generally short news item or feature. You can create a story and have it post to a specific page (or pages) using the taxonomy feature. For example if you have an event at a specific branch for Seniors you could have the event post on both the branch events page and the Seniors page.
• A blog entry is similar to a story but is attached to a user. If you wish to have several different blogs you would create different user identities for yourself and log in under each to submit a blog entry.
• The book content type is suited for creating structured, multi-page hypertexts such as site resource guides, manuals, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). It permits a document to have chapters, sections, subsections, etc.
• Books have additional navigation elements at the bottom of each page for moving through the text, the previous, up, and next links. Users can select the printer friendly version link at the bottom of the page to generate a printer friendly version of the page and all of its subsections.
• A poll is a simple multiple-choice questionnaire, which displays the cumulative results of the answers to the poll.
• The forum module lets you create threaded discussion forums for a particular topic on

Editor Overview

• The Title is the title of the page that goes both at the top of your browser and at the top of the page itself.

• You enter your text in the Body.
• You can copy and paste from a word document or HTML editor or type directly into the body box.
• Mousing over each editor icon allows you to see what it does.
• You can make notes or comments for the other website authors in the log message box
• To attach a pdf or word document see the File Attachments page.

• To see how your work looks click the Preview button at the bottom of the page.
• When you are done click Submit.

Adding Images

To add an image

• Click on the Insert/Edit Image Icon

• In the Pop-up box that appers click on the Browse Icon (next to the Image URL fields)

• You will see a list of all files already uploaded

• You can click on any of the images to Preview them
• You will not see your Word documents or PDFs in preview

• If you wish to add a new image click on Browse

• You will be able to search your workstation to locate the desired image
• Once you have found it, click on it and Open
• Then click on Upload File
• You will see your image and the comment Upload Successful
• To insert it in your page click Add to the far right of its file name
• The file name will now appear in the Image URL field of the Insert/Edit Image Pop-Up
• Enter a description of the image in the next line for users who rely on screenreaders.
• Click on the Appearance tab.

• You can select how you would like words to wrap around the image from the Alignment drop down menu.
• You can preview what each option looks like by selecting it.
• You can also insert your cursor within your text to position where your image will be.
• Constrain proportions allows you to change either the height or width of the image and the other size will change the same percentage.
• You first need to Insert the image
• Then you can change one size
• Click outside the size box and the other will change.
• You can add both horizontal and vertical space as well as borders around your images.
• The advanced tab lets you add effects, you can have your image change to another one as you mouse over it and back again as you mouse out.
• You can see the effect when you click Preview on the page.
• When you are done click Insert

Menu Settings and Weight

• To place your page on a menu click on Menu settings.

• Under Title enter the name that your want to display for the menu link.
• Under Parent item select the Menu Item that you would like to place it beneath.
• If you are working on a Book you can select where your page will go by using the Parent drop down menu below the title. Your page will go beneath the page that you selected as a Parent.
• If you have multiple items beneath the same parent then the default is in alphabetical order.
  If you wish to change that order then you would use the Weight drop down menu.
• The default menu position is 0.
• To place something higher in the menu order you would make it lighter by using a negative number up to -10.
• To place something lower in the menu you would make it heavier by using a positive menu number up to (plus) 10.
• Depending on your user permissions you can also position menu items on the Administer Menus page.
• Book page order can also be changed in the administer >> content >> books >> outline page.

File Attachments

To link to a document use file attachments.

• Browse on your workstation to find a pdf or word document to link to.
• Click attach
• Then copy the url that has been created and place your cursor over the word(s) that you would like to link it to.
• Select the add link icon and a pop-up window will open.
• Paste the url and select the target.
• Chose whether you would like it to open in a new window or the current window.

Comment Settings

• Comment settings allow you to select which Web pages and stories you will allow users to comment on.
• You can select from
• Disabled
• Read Only
• Read/Write
• You can do this for an entire class of content from the administer/content menu.

URL Settings

• URL settings allow you to create a URL alias for your page.
• By default Drupal URLs have addresses such as http://www.chillco.com/node/42
• You can enter a more descriptive term such as "about".
• If you have administrator permissions you can also manage URLs on the administer >> url alias page.

Authoring Information

•  Authoring information shows you the user name of the page creator and the time the page was submitted (default).
• You can change the username to another registered user.
• You can change the time.
• If you leave it blank then anonymous will be credited.

Publishing Options

• Published - upon Submit your page will be visible on your website.
• In moderation queue - your page will not be published until it is approved
• Promoted to front page - adds the content to your homepage. When setting up your Web site be sure to go to adminster/content and uncheck this as the default for your content categories.
• Sticky at top of lists - this applies to content other than pages, the item will stay at the top of the page even if newer items are posted
• Create new revision - When you are creating a revision be sure to check this option. The page will now have a revert feature. Each version of the changes to the page will be saved and you can revert back to previous versions or the original page. The user who made the changes will be logged automatically as well as the date and time. For ease of telling the various revisions apart be sure to enter notes in the log message box.

News Aggregator

• The news aggregator is a powerful on-site RSS syndicator/news reader that can gather fresh content from news sites and weblogs around the web.
• Users can view the latest news chronologically in the main news aggregator display or by source.
• Administrators can add, edit, and delete feeds and choose how often to check for newly updated news for each individual feed.
• Administrators can also tag individual feeds with categories, offering selective grouping of some feeds into separate displays.
• Listings of the latest news for individual sources or categorized sources can be enabled as blocks for display in the sidebar through the block administration page.

Managing Content

• The Content page allows you to manage content.
• You can select the content that you wish to see listed:
• Published
• Not published
• In moderation
• Not in moderation
• Promoted
• Not Promoted
• Sticky
• Not Sticky
• Or you can select to view content of different types:
• Blog entries
• Book pages
• Forum topics
• Pages
• Polls
• Stories
• If you have categorized your content you can sort it via categories.
• You administer the content by checking the box next to the title and selecting to:
• Approve the selected posts
• The post will be published.
• Promote the selected posts
• The post will go to the top of the home page.
• Make the selected posts sticky
• The post will remain at the top of its page.
• Demote the selected posts
• The post will no longer be on the home page and will no longer be sticky.
• Unpublish the selected posts
• When a published Web page is unpublished the page turns pink.  An unpublished story no longer appears.
• An unauthorized user who tries to access the page after it is unpublished will get a message "Access Denied - You are not authorized to view this space".
• Delete the selected posts
• Note that broader site configuration choices may alter some of the choices on this page or render them superfluous.

Managing Content Types

• Go to administer >> settings >> content types
• Next to each content type there is a configure link. 
• This will allow you to set site wide settings for each type of content. 
• Someone with administrator privileges can override these on an individual case basis.
• Explanation or submission guidelines
• You can provide general information/instructions to your content posters.
• You can select the minimum amount of text allowed. 
• Zero is the default and prevents posting an empty page.
• Workflow
• Sets the default options for the website. 
• Upon Submit is the content (see the Publishing Options page for more information.)
• Published (default for all content)
• Placed in a moderation queue
• Promoted to front (home) page (default for stories)
• Sticky at top of lists
• Create new revision
• Note that more than one item can be checked
• Users with the administer nodes permission will be able to override these option
• Default comment setting
• Disabled
• Read only
• Read/Write (default
• Users with the administer comments permission will be able to override this setting.
• Attachments
• Disabled 
• Enabled (default)

Posts

• The posts page allows you to control the number of posts on the home page
• This will affect you if you use stories or polls there.
• You can also control the length of a trimmed post.
• You can have only a teaser of a post display with a link to click for further content.
• You can select whether a Preview is optional or mandatory for posters.