Administer page in About: Drupal Features needs content and screenshots

Renaming to 'Collaborate' to reflect the new About-> Drupal CMS Features structure (since this is where social publishing should exist under)

Please note: we still need to change the paths to reflect this change.

How about:


and
http://drupal.org/node/325506 ?

This is a very wierd page, I am totally not following what we are doing here. We are showcasing features by showing a drush screenshot :S?

The page doesn't really go into detail about Drupal Administration out of the box. The second paragraph goes right into talking about Views Bulk Operations, then there's Drush. Drush is probably really interesting to developers (even though it's useful for everyone, but other's won't know it's interesting for them), Views Bulk Operations is awesome as well, but it's hard to understand for beginners. Could be mentioned at the end though. I guess headlines for both the Drush and VBO sections would make sense as well. Drush's headline could be "Command line tool for Drupal" and VBO's headline could be "Extending administration possibilities using Views Bulk Operations" or something similar.

So how about we add some more screenshots for contextual edit links, for a couple of important admin pages and the new possibilities for adding modules through the UI?

I'm attaching some screenshot suggestions.

Structure for text could be something like this:
- administering content (nodes, blocks)
- administer users, permissions
- Dashboard
- adding modules and themes
- Drush
- VBO

Changing status.

Please upload screenshots as PNG files, http://drupal.org/node/762

@drumm Oh sorry, I checked one of the existing screenshots (the one of Drush in Terminal) and that happened to be a jpg, so I went for that.

@lisarex: I can fix my screenshots. As far as I see they are Drupal 7 and English-only. Should add some content for the Dashboard though. Any other suggestions for the screenshots?

Hi @aschiwi - Here's a screenshot that showcases some user permissions configuration. I'll let you go head with the improved dashboard and other screenshots - find me in #drupal-redesign or #drupal-contribute if you want to coordinate and avoid duplicating our efforts :).

I revised the copy to this below. I only briefly touched upon themes and modules since they are covered more in-depth in "Design & Display" and "Extend", respectively. Let me know what you think.

With Drupal, administering a site is easier than ever.

Drupal’s administration is separated into five main sections: Content, Appearance, People, Structure, and Configuration. Additional modules you install will expand these sections with more settings. You can easily administer basic site configuration settings, such as changing your site slogan, modifying default language and date/time settings, creating site-wide and custom RSS feeds, and much more. After you have a fully-configured website that is ready for content, you can tweak and fine-tune your site by setting blocks, creating menus, enabling new themes, and adding nodes for content types such as stories and blog posts.

Themes, which define how your site is laid out, are highly configurable in Drupal and can be fully customized by a web designer. They are freely available for download on Drupal's Themes page. A site can have an unlimited number of themes installed, allowing you to test out themes, have your users choose a personal theme, or even set a mobile site theme.

Users and Permissions

Drupal comes with great options for new user accounts and user permissions. Users can be assigned one or more roles, and each role can be set up with fine-grained permissions that allow users to view and create only what the administrator permits.

Dashboard

Drupal 7 comes with a new feature called Dashboard, a module that provides users with personalized dashboard pages similar to iGoogle or MyYahoo. Users can add widgets to their pages and arrange them through a drag-and-drop interface. This administrative page can be customized to provide quick access to the tools you use most, links to manage your content, or simply lists of new comments or users.

Extending administration possibilities

The Views Bulk Operations module further extends administration possibilities. It provides a simple and easy-to-use moderation system by defaulting your content to the unpublished state and then setting it to publish at set times. It can also perform bulk operations on custom lists of content built by the Views module.

Command line tool for Drupal

Drupal Shell (Drush) simplifies site administration by allowing you to use a single command to complete multi-step operations, instead of spending hours hacking away at the command prompt. A command line shell and scripting interface, Drush can automatically update your modules and core to the latest version, install and enable modules, clear your cache, and even run module functions such as cron hooks.

Second try :)

@diana.k: The new text is much better now!

I am not sure we are going in the right direction with this, screenshots are very hard "especially at this size" to comprehend what features we offer for a given category, browsing through all I see is paragraphs of text with headings, its not scanable and not saying much about what it does out of the box.. We should really reconcider what makes the most rich description of our features, which to me would be a video.

Should we talk about:

1) Multiple Navigation points like:

• Tool Bar
• Dashboard
• Shortcuts and
• Contextual links...

2) Use of Overlay to display information

3) Use of images on this page: We should probably use small images uniformed sized with a light box class to pop up images in a light box?