By cncmachining on

OK, I've installed Drupal for my website. It also gives me the welcom page and I can log in
For Starters I would like to build a page with an index default (kind of a welcome page). One disclaimer page and five subject pages (products, profile, projects, people, processes)
So what must I do now step by step?
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Drupalace-1 commented

There's a lot of info for starting out here on Drupal.org, including overviews of how to build specific nodes and features of the sort you describe.

Finding the best bits of info for beginners can take some searching, though. Try this overview for starters; it points out some of the specific good resources out there.
http://www.drupalace.com/drupal-for-beginners

Best of luck!

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cncmachining commented

Thanks, this looks very elaborate and I think I can use this in the future. Is there also a simple step by step guide for a VERY Basic web site, as described?

build a page with an index default (kind of a welcome page).
One disclaimer page
five subject pages:
* products
* profile
* projects
* people
* processes

Actually it's simple page creation with a menue.

Later I will look for more elaborate functions relating to SEO, blogging, catalogues, adsense aso.

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tpainton commented

First off, click on create content, page.

First page, title is "products".

menu setting, menu link title "Products", parent item, Pick the menu you want to use. Typically, the navigation meny is on side bar, primary typically runs along top.. it all depends on which theme you choose.

Body.. If you want to enter html here, scroll down and expand the "input format" section. Check full html. From here, you can edit the page with html. If you are not html savvy, then just use plain text.

Scroll down and and in workflow, uncheck, "promoted to front page", and leave the item published.

Do the same thing with all your topics..

For your front page, type something simple, don't add a menu and "promote to front Page"

Now go to administer, User managment, User settings and pick how you want users to register.. if you are just using a static corporate page, you probably dont want users to register.

If you don't want the login box visible on the front page, then go to Administer/site building/blocks and disable the "user login" box ..

NOW DONT PANIC WHEN YOU LOG OUT AND DONT SEE A WAY TO LOGIN.

You log in by going to www.yoursite.com/?q=user. This is your secret backdoor.

Lastly, I would install the SEO module (think that's the name, and follow the directions so you optimize your site from google searches. it will add many things that increase your site on search engines.

Lots of other little things like pictures, etc but that will get you started..

Oh yes.. pick a theme you like, download and extract into the themes directory, then go to theme and enable. You can find tons of themes in the downloads section on drupal.com.

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cncmachining commented

tpainton, I'll be trying this out soon. And after that I am going to give some feedback on it.

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cncmachining commented

By any chance, is there a way to delete EVERYTHING to start over again?

Unfortunately I couldn't find the SEO Module, which I would like to use. Perhaps it has another name (path maybe?).

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tpainton commented

You can either empty your database or reinstall the site.