[support] Rather fundamental question - how to find how site is structured, e.g. where is the home/front page defined?

[prothero]

Chris:
It can be hard to learn Drupal from the online docs. The way I got oriented is by purchasing "Drupal for Dummies". There are also other Drupal books that you can find on Amazon. When you are choosing a book, make sure it applies to Drupal 6, rather than 7, as long as you are using V6.
Good luck,
Bill

William A. Prothero
http://earthednet.org/



On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:19 AM, Chris G wrote:

> 
> Well, I have now updated this Drupal 6.16 site to 6.22 and have also
> updated dozens of modules which were out of date to get rid of all the
> security warnings.  It was fairly straightforward once I realised that,
> in the main, all that was needed was to download and unpack the relevant
> module tar file and copy it over the old version.  I also read the
> release notes and did any extra cache clearing etc. mentioned there.
> 
> So far so good, I have a fairly reasonable idea of how to do things on
> the support/technical side now.
> 
> However I'm totally lost as to how to manage/change the content.  Well,
> not entirely true, I can see how to add what Drupal calls nodes.  The
> site has various ways for users to add contents in blogs, organisation
> profiles, work opportunities, etc.  That's fine and I can see how they
> get added to the relevant parts of the site.
> 
> The big thing I can't understand though is how the *structure* of the
> site is organised, i.e. how do I find where the front page is created
> and how is the hierarchy below there structured?
> 
> The "Default Front Page" in System Configuration is set to 'front'.
> 
> Can anyone point me at where I can look and learn how the site is put
> together? 
> 
> Oh, the site is http://www.globaloptimists.org/ if anyone wants to take
> a look at it.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> -- 
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