By Lee Steadman on

Hi All,
I am trying to find out how to change the text of the home page of http://www.fieldcommon.net

The paragraph I want to change starts:
"Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website..."

I have searched the forum and read the documentation but just can't seem to figure out what file I need to delve into to change it.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Regards, Lee

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marky’s picture

marky commented

and the 2nd sentence of that same paragraph says.... ?

/marky

shijina’s picture

shijina commented

For customising the navigation which file should I have to edit could edit.

I am using the default template (bluemarine)

Can anyone help me.

John Hwang’s picture

John Hwang commented

Assuming you're using drupal 4.6

1) Goto

Administer->Themes

2) Click on the "configure" tab.

3) Scroll down halfway and you'll see a grouping labeled as "Menu Settings" with textareas where you can input primary menus and secondary menus.

4) Click on "Save Configuration"

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shijina commented

Thank you John Hwang for your reply.

But I think it is not the solution I needed.I want to change the layout of my site , and wish to give a new look.For that where should I have to edit.

Thanks

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heine commented

It depends on how much you want to modify. A lot is possible with CSS (usually style.css in the theme directory themes/[theme_name]/style.css). Get a theme closest to the look and feel you desire and then adapt the css.

If you want to modify more, you may need to adapt the code that generates output. For php themes the .theme file for phptemplate themes the various tpl files.

See also the relevant handbook section.
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shijina commented

Ok I agree that by editing style.css I will be able to change the color and fontsize of the site content.
But I want new links on navigation like 'about us' or 'contact us'. how can I make a new page and how can I add a link to that page in navigation.

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heine commented

Hi,

I believe we were talking about different things.

So we'll step back and look at the way drupal works.

The basis of almost any content management system (CMS) is that it manages content. In general you post content using a webinterface, which is stored by the CMS in a database.

When a visitor looks at the content you created the CMS pulls all needed information from the database and generates themed output.

The layout (colors, position, fonts) are done by the theme or templating system.

Now, the first thing you need to do after installing Drupal is to create a user. The first user will automatically have the priviliges to do anything. For example: click on the 'primary links' and you'll be taken to a page where you can edit them.

As you can see; even editing parts of the navigation goes via a webinterface.

When you want to add content, say an about page go to 'Create content > Page'. Give the page a title (About comes to mind) and a body of text, then submit the page.

The page you just created has a URL you can use as the basis for a 'primary link'

Hope this helps.

More info:
http://drupal.org/node/21951
http://drupal.org/node/363

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