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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 6

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.

Acquia Drupal Website, Part 5

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)