Beginner's guide for Drupal

What is Drupal?

What is this thing with the funny name, Drupal?

It is a "content management system". I am using it for several of the websites that I manage because it enables quick and easy updating of content.

It separates out the style from the text.

It supports multiple user accounts so that I can share the task of maintaining these sites.

It does a whole lot more. If you really want the full story, you should simply visit the Drupal web site.

How do I use Drupal?

This page purports to give you just enough information to create and edit pages in the sites that I manage. For now the publically accessible site is Solar CREEK.

This page is part of another easy-to-use content management system called a MediaWiki. Wiki's have their own advantages and disadvantages but that's a story for another day.

If something here is confusing to you, you can either write to me or you can directly edit the page to clarify it; that's how a wiki works. Anyway. On with the Drupal story. Let's get started.

Set up your account

To browse the site and leave comments, you don't need an account. To add or edit content, you do.

Currently you can just sign up; I act as the editor and decide whether stories get published. (This is to limit defacement of the site, not to step on your toes.)