Working with menus

Menus are how users move around a website; by clicking on words like 'Services' or 'Contact Us', they will get to your content. As such, it is important to think about what the best terms are to describe your site to someone who isn't familiar with what you or your organization offers. Happily, the time it takes to think through and decide on the best options probably takes less time than it takes to actually build them.

URL aliases

URL is an abbreviation of "Uniform Resource Locator" and is the page's address on the web. It is the "name" by which a browser identifies a page to display. In the example "Check us out at mysite.com." the part mysite.com is the URL for the home page of your web site. Users use URLs implicitly to locate content on the web.

Backup Process with phpMyAdmin

Here is another article that deals with this subject.

Backup Process with phpMyAdmin

The screen shots here are from phpMyAdmin 2.11.4, which I have on my local computer. Web hosts using different versions should look similar. They certainly produce exchangeable results.

  1. Log into phpMyAdmin on your server.
  2. Select the name of your database - or your Drupal database if you have several databases.


Setting up cron

More complete information can be found on the main cron page. If you can understand that page, then use it first.


Cron is an extremely important resource to your Drupal website setup. Many modules, including major system modules, utilize cron's power to do their jobs properly. Practically speaking, cron will alert you to security and other updates necessary to your site, provide a list of broken links and pages on your site, and perform other scheduled tasks (like back-ups).

Categories (Taxonomy)

You will see a lot of posts on the Drupal site about creating and using a Taxonomy (or "vocabulary" and "terms").

While it is true that the more content you have the more obvious the need for a taxonomy becomes, there is certainly no reason why a smaller website that has things to classify can't use it.

But to try to help you get a slightly better idea of how to use them, we'll use a case study here.

Common problems

There are some problems we all seem to "find;" this section documents a few of them. [Remember to always search before posting on the forums.]

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