This week we looked at a very important and interesting issue about website Administration. Of course, as a Owner of the website i have to expand it, nurture it, and support it. All this issues are invovled in administering website. To Administer a websit there are some tasks such as: Back up the site so you can restore it if accident happen to it. checkig the logs to see if there are any erors that you need to address Checking to see if there are…

This week we learnt more about Panels. “The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses.” There are eight standard layout available and one flexible layout for us to use to divide up our content area. Tips to create a Panel page: To start: intall and enable Chaos Tools(CTools) and Panels Module. Decide what content will be on the page Choose one of the 8 layout or try yourself by using the flexible one Go to Structure link and select…

This week we learnt aboout Content Types. Content Types is a pre-defined collection of data types (Fields) which relate to each other by an informational context. In this sense, “context” means “parts that should be considered as a correlated whole.” when I installed Drupal i got two Content Types: Basic Page and Basic Article. Bot of them have a 2 basic fields: A title and A body. The body of the Content Type is flexible and can have whatever the author feels suchas: Write a…

This week the class was very interisting. It was about how keep people visiting my website, how keep them engaged? In Drupal we have some features that can help to take people in contact. This features are callded interactive features. They are: blogs Forums (discussion) polls webforms This features give opportunity for the people to put their comment, question or thoughts and they can interact with others people exchange their opninion. blogs To use a blog in Drupal it need to be enable. Steps to…

This week we learnt about Modules in Drupal. Modules: Drupal modules are like plugins for our site. The modules allow are to add different functions to our site such as simple article or as complex and as a fully featured eCommerce, search fields, and contact forms. Modules make it easy on administrators to further expand their site. We can download modules to add to our site too. They are just link plugins. Module There are a lot so to understand which Module is need is…

In the week 4 (Lesson 4) we learnt more about Drupal. We talk about Theme. Themes allow you to change the look and feel of your Drupal site. Visual layout and presentation of a Drupal site is defined through a Drupal component know as a theme: Theme define: Colours of the pages Font for the text headings, links and other elements Placement of images and graphics The layout of the page Themes is very important because it determine your layout. So before to get a…