Tag: Drupal tutorial

Welcome to part 6 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site
Part 4: Playing with Blocks
Part 5: Playing with Modules

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  In the last tutorial we played with blocks and planned and started implementing the layout of our website.  So our website so far looks like this:

We talked about site layout when we discussed blocks in part 4 of this series, and in part 5 we discussed functionality using modules.  The two main basic components left to consider are appearance, and content.  We will tackle the first of these two, appearance, in this post.

Continue reading “Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 6: Playing with Themes”

Welcome to part 5 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site
Part 4: Playing with Blocks

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  In the last tutorial we played with blocks and planned and started implementing the layout of our website.  So our website so far looks like this:

(You can click on the images for larger views)

In this post we are going to continue working on our site, building it and adding functionality to it. We know what we want our site to look like, and now we want to decide what functionality we want to have, and how to achieve our goals with modules.

Continue reading “Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 5: Playing with Modules”

Welcome to part 4 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  So our website so far looks like this:

(You can click on the images for larger views)

In the last post we did some site configuration, modified our footer, added a slogan and more.

In today’s post and over the next few posts we’re going to start build out site out, by looking through the options in the admin section of Site Building and laying out our site, adding sections, and adding functionality.

Today we get to play with blocks!

Continue reading “Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 4: Playing with Blocks”

Welcome to part 3 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6. In part 1 we did a brief introduction, and in part 2 we installed Drupal.  As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  So our website so far looks like this:

(You can click on the images for larger views)

In this installment, we’re going to further configure our website and learn more about the administrative back end of a Drupal website.  So log in to the website with your admin username and password.  On the left side is a navigation bar, and we’re going to click on “Administer” and look at the admin back end.

Continue reading “Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 3: Configuring your Site”