About the Drupal CMS

2. About the Drupal CMS & Topics covered in this slideshow • So we built a website, why use Drupal CMS? • Hosting: what Siteground offers • Legalities: legal pitfalls & what can be done about them • The future of the Confey FC website: expandability • Maintaining Confey FC

3. Introducing Drupal What is it and why use it? Acronym: CMS: 1. Content Management System ...Drupal CMS is made up out of many easy-to-use components

4. ...Like LEGO, these can be combined in a variety of ways ...Allowing for an endless number of possibilities

6. Introducing Drupal ... Even though: • the system itself remains Easy-to-use • is Free to download and install (Open Source) • is Continuously updated and improved

7. Introducing Drupal So what are the pitfalls? • the system is complex = hard to install Meaning? • you will need a host that supports Drupal CMS

8. SiteGround Hosting Company Offering the following features: ...AND: a free email client and visitor logbook

9. Legalities Some pitfalls that Confey FC administrators should know about: • Minors in the Gallery section • Forums & Comments – the profane/abusive kind • Site Ownership

10. The Future of Confey FC Items that might be added in future: • A Forum • Better Profile Page • A Football Blog Need a large active user base before this can be done properly Modules exist that can accomplish this Matter of finding someone to update it

11. Content Management Maintaining Drupal using non-Drupal items: • Uploading Content: images/*.pdf files etc. Can be done using cPanel (from SiteGround) OR your own computer Filezilla, free from: <http://filezilla-project.org/> Login to website with; USERNAME confeyfc PASSWORD cfc1994 • A Few Words on cPanel (from SiteGround) • Personally I would use it for setting up e-mail and checking the website’s access logs (they count everything – not very accurate). It’s not ideally configured for use with Drupal CMS so be careful using it.

12. Content Management Access cPanel as follows:

13. Content Management Access cPanel as follows:

14. Content Management Access cPanel as follows:

15. Content Management Access cPanel as follows:

16. Content Management Access cPanel as follows:

17. Preferences • eMail • File uploading • Logs • Security !

18. Content Management Maintaining Drupal: • Managing the Front Page & Publishing Options: • Managing Users & Logging In: • Managing different Content Types

19. Content Management EMERGENCY Login: http://confeyfc.com/?q=user

20. Content Management Normal Login: http://confeyfc.com/

21. Content Management User Management:

22. Content Management Maintaining Drupal: • Adding Content, types: • Pitch Check • Honours • Page • Book • Story • Image • Event • GMap • GMap Macro

23. Content Management Front Page NORMAL:

24. Content Management Front Page, PUBLISHING Options:

25. Content Management 5/9 NORMAL content:

26. Content Management 5/9 NORMAL content:

27. Content Management 6/9 EVENT content:

28. Content Management 7/9 GMAP MACRO content:

29. Content Management 7/9 GMAP MACRO content:

30. Content Management 8/9 GMAP content:

31. Content Management 8/9 GMAP content:

32. Content Management 9/9 Image content:

33. Content Management Importing Images – FTP using FileZilla:

34. Content Management Importing Images – Bringing them into Drupal:

35. Content Management Flagging Images:

36. Content Management Flagged Items:

37. Drupal CMS Q&A So, Any Questions?