By Shoes-1 on

I 'm a new drupal user, I just wanted to know if there is any step by step information that is designed for new users like me. Things like putting the first item on site and changing the background of the site.

Thanks
David

[moved to pre-installation questions - Heine]

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mrtunes’s picture

mrtunes commented

I think this is in the wrong forum. Have you read the handbooks at the top of the Drupal site? Changing the background is done by finding the image file that sets the background in your template and replacing it with your own image.

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rszrama commented

I'm sure there are somewhere, though, and I'm hoping to develop another resource to do just that in the near future. For now, I can get you started, though...

If you click on the create content menu, you can create a new page. Fill in the appropriate information, and be sure to expand the lower forms so you can see what options are available. When you submit, this is saved as a node, which really just represents one piece of the site. A node is displayed by browsing to /?q=node/. If this is the first page you've created, you'll be able to view it by browsing to 

<site address>/?q=node/1

You will have noticed in the publishing options that this can be promoted to the front page, given a link in the navigation menu, and more. When viewing this, you'll be able to edit all these options later by clicking the edit tab from the node view. If you go to administer->settings in the menu and open up the general settings form, you'll see a text box for "Default front page." I believe it defaults to just "node" which displays a list of nodes with the most recent first. Well, you could have the node you just created be displayed by changing that to "node/1" and from now on the front page will show that node.

Also, in administer->content you will see the nodes you have and have options to edit, delete, etc.

Changing the background requires more than the web interface. For the time being, I'll just quickly point you to administer->themes in the navigation menu where you'll see 4 stock themes that come with Drupal. Perhaps you can start with these few tips and begin to figure out more! (I'm sure somewhere else here will reply with some info, too.)

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drupalec-1 commented

www.drupalecommerce.com was made for beginners. Right now it does assume you actually know how to add content but that kind of explanations will be added as time goes on.
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Drupal ecommerce, at www.drupalecommerce.com is a new site written using language that Drupal beginners and intermediate users can understand. It has about 300 unfinished pages. 2 tutorials for views module under "Modules"