Setting Up my Homepage
This following will leave out an explanation of what is behind a few of the these steps. Bear with me as many of the things you will want to know more about will be explained in later posts. I am doing things this way because when I first started with Drupal it took me awhile to figure out how to get this done. When I typed in my domain name all that come up was the Drupal page that is in place once you have Drupal installed to your website. I really wanted to change this homepage to something I created. It took awhile because each step that took me closer to this was a learning experience. I had to first make a new Drupal Page. I had to publish it. Then I needed to know the node name. And on and on. Each step took me down a path of learning something else about Drupal but it was a slow process. Once I did get my homepage finished and working I felt a lot better about where I was at with learning Drupal. So lets just get this done right away, without all the pain of having to understand it all.
First a page needs to be created. I do this by on the “Create Content” link in the sidebar. This takes me to another page where I click on the first choice, which is “page.”
I enter a title for this page and for now I will just call it “My New Homepage.” In the body section I type in a bunch of text. I then go to the bottom of the page and click on the save button.
Once saved the completed page is loaded. Looking at the URL address I can see that it includes the following (after my domain name): /node/2
This is the information I will need to set this as my homepage. To complete this process we need to go to the next post and work on my “site information” …..(part 6)