Rather fundamental question - how to find how site is structured, e.g. where is the home/front page defined?
Well, I have now updated this Drupal 6.16 site to 6.22 and have also updated dozens of modules which were out of date to get rid of all the security warnings.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: 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Well, I have now updated this Drupal 6.16 site to 6.22 and have also updated dozens of modules which were out of date to get rid of all the security warnings.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 -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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.
Just be aware that the copy over method for contributed modules may not be what you want to do. I highly suggest instead to remove the old directory and then install the new one. The reasons are varied but you can have a module that creates new directories or renames files or both and have more than one version of files in the directory.
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