<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ben, I have updated the pag, <A href="http://drupal.org/node/21951">http://drupal.org/node/21951</A><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Please review.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kieran<BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 30, 2006, at 5:26 AM, Benjamin Slade wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Drupal is a web-based content management system. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Text and pointers to other kinds of content are stored in a database, dynamically retrieved and composed, and presented to a user in response to a request sent via a web-browser.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Content in Drupal is created in individual "nodes".<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For nodes of type "story", users can add comments to the node (comments themselves are not considered nodes). <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Depending on site settings,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>adding new nodes and/or posting comments might or might not be allowed. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Also, nodes or comments might require approval from the moderators before the node or comment is displayed. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Blog entries are another type of Drupal node.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The default Drupal layout ("Theme"), consists of three columns. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The center column is referred to as the "Content Column". <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It typically displays summaries of the most recently posted nodes in date order. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If you click on a node summary, the full content of the node is displayed in the center column.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The left and right side columns are referred to as the sidebars.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The side bars can display "blocks" of related information.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Blocks often contain links for navigating to other nodes. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For example, there can be blocks displaying the most recently posted stories, or the most popular stories.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For new installations, the login block displays, along with a navigation block containing a menu of available actions. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Different menu items can display in the navigation block depending on what you're doing and what privileges ("roles") you have.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Blocks may or may not display depending on what you're doing and what privileges ("roles") you have.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For example, the login block will not display if you're already logged in,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>or the "most recent stories" block may not display if there are no story nodes available. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The administrator can enable/disable different blocks under the Admin->Blocks menu item.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nodes can be organized into categories, also called taxonomies.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Forums are an example of content nodes organized by category.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Categories can be hierarchical, where one parent category contains multiple child categories.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">New features in Drupal are often implemented as "modules".<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Once an administrator adds a module file to the "modules" subdirectory, the option to use the module appears in the Admin->Modules section. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If the administrator enables that module in Admin->Modules, the features associated with that module become active. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>A module may define new node types, new menu items may appear in the navigation block, and new types of blocks may become available for display in the sidebars.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>