Site Information Settings
There are a few changes here that will be helpful, including being able to tell Drupal the name of your own custom homepage. This administration page is found at…
Site Configuration> Site Information
The entry on the page is for the Site Name. This is the name that shows up on the header of your site for most themes, including Acquia Marina. You can set up a theme to have a header with a picture behind it, with a logo, and with other text but for now we are going to use the default and let the site name text be our header content. Drupal automatically added in the URL address here but I changed it to “Learn Local History.”
The next line is where you can change your administrative email (as discussed when you first enter an email address when you are installing Drupal through the web interface).
The slogan entry box is for a byline that can show up under your site name text. I did want to add that for my site. For now I added “Learn, Share and Appreciate Your Town’s Unique History.” I may change this later. The slogan will not show up in my header until I work on the theme administration page.
I ignored the mission portion of this page but did add a copyright notice to the “footer message.” I put in the following text: All information © Learnlocalhistory.com 2009
The © part will show up as a copyright symbol.
For the default homepage I entered:
node/2
This is the homepage I created in the previous part of this series. As usual, to finish things off I had to click on the “save configuration” button.
These changes mean that my site now has a homepage that I created myself and the site name that shows up in the header is more in line with what I want to see there.