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Navigating your site during the site-building process

When you first log into your site in Drupal, the system will open the screen on your home page. This page may be blank depending on whether or not content has been added yet.

The first step to getting you acclimated to working in Drupal is understanding where everything is located and, roughly, what it does. The image below is the Admin menu which is always located at the top of your screen when you're logged into Drupal.

Top Black Admin Menu Bar

Drupal Admin bar

Clicking on any of these top level menu links will active a shortcuts menu underneath, links to the most popular elements of Drupal. See below:

Drupal admin menu shortcuts

 

This is your content interface where you will create new content and edit/manage existing content

Content types - if the default content types (Articles, Basic Pages, Person, Event, Image Gallery, etc) don't fit your exact need and you want to try your hand at creating a custom content type

Display modes - exist to provide different presentations of Content Entities for either editing or viewing. The two types of display modes are "view modes" and "form modes."

Menus - all your site's menu systems--including primary navigation, drop-downs, secondary menus, and custom menus--are found and maintained here

Taxonomy - the system of organizing, classifying and tagging your content so it can be connected, related, and shared in different ways through custom terms you define

Views - SiteFarm will display the content you create using robust Views. If you create a news section and incorporate an in-depth Taxonomy, your site will be able to display your News by date, by author, by categories, branding and tags. If the default sets of Views included in SiteFarm doesn't completely meet your needs, you can try creating your own Views

Configuration

Access to this section will be restricted to Site Builders

Global site settings, such as logos, are found here

People

Access to this section will be restricted to Site Managers

Can create, modify, and delete accounts

Assign roles and permissions (evolving)

Reports

Help

If your content isn't stored in folders or in any particular order when you create it, it begs the question: how do you even find and work on your existing material?

Every piece of content you create will be available to you through the Content section from the Admin panel. The Content page will provide you with a table displaying nodes (pages) you have created, files and images you have uploaded, and blocks custom-created by someone in your site-building team.