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I received a question about how to add your mission statement in Drupal. Drupal has a standard place for a mission statement at the top of the home page right below the title. This area is usually set off from the rest of the theme in some way. You can change or add text in this area by going to Administer → Themes → choose the active themes (assuming you have only one active) read down until you come to mission statement and check it, if is not checked already. Then go back to Administer → Site configuration → Site information and find Mission and fill in the text area right below it. It should now appear on your home page.
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If you have not all ready, read http://www.dashaver.com/Add-Content-Drupal-WebSite Under the are where you add your text you should see an area which says Attached images. If you don't see this it is because the image module has not been installed, email me and I will install it for you. Click on Attached images and in the drop down portion you should see Upload image and the browse button. Use the browse button to find the image on your computer. The image will be uploaded. You should put in an Image title. The image will appear in the area marked thumbnail.
Drupal is an open source content management system, that allows users to manage the content of their website. Drupal enables a user to edit the content of their website using a browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Drupal is an interface between the user and the programming code allowing users to also change the content of their own website. Originally the web was composed individual pages that were each made separately by developers. These pages are called HTML pages. This led to problems because it violates the basic principal of data integrity, which is information should not be listed in more than one place to insure its accuracy and timeliness. Imagine a website with the address at the bottom of each page and as the website grows any changes will have to be made to each page. Think of a very large e-commerce web site with a menu on each page. What happens if one link changes? In a content management system like Drupal these bits of information are stored in a single database called MySQL and retrieved each time a page is requested by the user. -> Read more
- Who – Always say who you are. When you hear something the first thing you think of is “who said that?” The most important part of every fact is it source. On your web site readers should know if you are person, organization or company.
- Choose a topic your readers will want to know about
- Choose a title that describes your topic and what you want to say about it
- Write a first sentence that summarizes your main points and what you hope to accomplish with your article
- Stay on topic
- Break your topic in relevant components
- Divide the separate parts with bulleted points or small paragraphs with bold sub headings. On-line articles should not contain long passages of unbroken text
- Explain each part of your overall topic
