Creating or editing content:

Append "admin" to the URL

For example: http://www.nysec.org/new_site/cms/  will look like this http://www.nysec.org/new_site/cms/admin

This will place the user on the Admin page.

Navigate to the Administrator Menu on the left hand side and click on the link Create Content

This will take you to the Create Content page which will look something like this:

The three most important types of content that the user will create are:

Page:

This creates the main body of a specific page. For example a user wants to create the Sunday School and Teens Program main page. This is how it would be done. On the Create Content page the user will pick the Page. This will open up a form like this:

The main parts of the form are as follows:

First part of the form contains the Title field and the Menu Settings.  The Title  field is the name of the page and what will appear on the page as the title. The menu settings page allows the user to put the created page in specific menus. 

In the example below we will be creating the Sunday School Teen Programs page. If we wanted to add this page to Primary Links menu we would just add Sunday School and Teen Programs to the Menu Link Title. The field Parent item is a list of menus that are available. The field Weight in what order the items appear in the menu. The lower the number the higher up on the menu. For example item 0 will appear before item 1.

The next part of the form is the Body. This is where the main content of the page is created. The WYSIWYG at the top of the body provides methods for styling the content. If a user would like to create or edit the content of the Body using HTML they can click the Source icon in the top left hand corner of the  Body WYSIWYG.

 There are a few more fields that are important in the basic creation and editing of a page. The URL path settings field allows the user to give the page a unique name. For instance here the URL to navigate to the Sunday School and Teen Programs page would look something like this: http://www.nysec.org/new_site/cms/sstprograms.  If the user decides not to use this option the URL will look like this http://www.nysec.org/new_site/cms/node/6 . If you noticed the end of the URL contains node/6. Content pages in Drupal parlance are classified in the database as a node and that  node has a number which is the  node id. Obviously by renaming the page it is easier to identify and a more intuitive way to classify and locate pages. This is not necessary but it is highly recommended.

The last field to be aware of in the basics of content page creation is the Publishing options. When the Published item is checked means that this page is in production and can be viewed by the public. If it is not checked this means that the page is in development and is not ready for the viewing public. The other important item is the Promoted to front page. When checked this will automatically make this content a part of the designated home page. Use this option carefully. It is suggested that this option should only be checked when the page the user is working on is the designated home page and should not be checked for any other page.

Finally when the user is done they can either preview or go for the gusto and Save the page and the final basic outcome will look something like this: