New Account: Basic Questions (How to add a Page, How to add Modules)
Hello All,
I am new to Drupal and I just created an account here.
Q1: Is this a demo account or a full fledged and fully enabled account?
Q2: How can I add Modules to my account?
Q3: How do I add, or create a: Page?
I am attempting to follow the docs: How To Create a Dynamic Web 2.0 Brochure Site in an Hour http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/how-to/dynamic-web20-brochure-site-...
but I can't find: create content»page
Has a page been renamed to a Book? At first I thought this might be the case, but now I think it's not as I cannot find: "Publishing options»Promoted to front page"
--Dan
Comments
sorry I wanted to reply to tech support
I'm trying to figure out how to do that (i'm a newbie).
--Dan
It's a 30-day demo account
It's a 30-day demo account with all of the features for the Bryght Basic level. It's like a test site, which you can setup and then switch out the URL with your domain name.
For modules, go to Administer, Site building, Module. Enable or disable from there.
Create content, Page.
Toby
Letter from 30-day jail....
As of now I have enabled every module except:
Drupal
Legacy
Locale
Can I add any modules other than those (I mean the list of modules on Home>Admin>Site building>Modules) included whilst in the 30 day jail? If so, how? If not, then how do I get out of 30-day jail and then what modules do you support and how do I install them: shell, ftp, or some method inside of drupal? (remember I am a drupal newbie.)
The only content I can create is:
Blog entry
Book page
Forum topic
Image
Poll
As for Pages...I don't see any pages...I don't see Create Content > Page
nor do I see a Page module...should there be a Page module?
Here is the list of modules from the control panel:
Content 5 Allows administrators to define new content types.
Required by: Content Copy (enabled), Date (enabled), Fieldgroup (enabled), Link (enabled), Node Reference (enabled), Number (enabled), Option Widgets (enabled), Text (enabled), User Reference (enabled)
Content Copy 5 Enables ability to import/export field definitions.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Date $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-4 $ Defines a date/time field type.
Depends on: Content (enabled), Date API (enabled)
Fieldgroup 5 Create field groups for CCK fields.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Link Defines simple link field types.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Node Reference 5 Defines a field type for referencing one node from another.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Number 5 Defines numeric field types.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Option Widgets 5 Defines selection, check box and radio button widgets for text and numeric fields.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Text 5 Defines simple text field types.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
User Reference 5 Defines a field type for referencing a user from a node.
Depends on: Content (enabled)
Core - optional
Enabled Throttle Name Version Description
Aggregator 5.1 Aggregates syndicated content (RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds).
Blog 5.1 Enables keeping easily and regularly updated user web pages or blogs.
Blog API 5.1 Allows users to post content using applications that support XML-RPC blog APIs.
Book 5.1 Allows users to collaboratively author a book.
Color 5.1 Allows the user to change the color scheme of certain themes.
Comment 5.1 Allows users to comment on and discuss published content.
Required by: Forum (enabled)
Contact 5.1 Enables the use of both personal and site-wide contact forms.
Drupal 5.1 Lets you register your site with a central server and improve ranking of Drupal projects by posting information on your installed modules and themes
Forum 5.1 Enables threaded discussions about general topics.
Depends on: Taxonomy (enabled), Comment (enabled)
Help 5.1 Manages the display of online help.
Legacy 5.1 Provides legacy handlers for upgrades from older Drupal installations.
Locale 5.1 Enables the translation of the user interface to languages other than English.
Menu 5.1 Allows administrators to customize the site navigation menu.
Path 5.1 Allows users to rename URLs.
Required by: Pathauto (enabled)
Ping 5.1 Alerts other sites when your site has been updated.
Poll 5.1 Allows your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions.
Profile 5.1 Supports configurable user profiles.
Search 5.1 Enables site-wide keyword searching.
Statistics 5.1 Logs access statistics for your site.
Taxonomy 5.1 Enables the categorization of content.
Required by: Forum (enabled), Image Gallery (enabled)
Throttle 5.1 Handles the auto-throttling mechanism, to control site congestion.
Tracker 5.1 Enables tracking of recent posts for users.
Upload 5.1 Allows users to upload and attach files to content.
Core - required
Enabled Throttle Name Version Description
Block 5.1 Controls the boxes that are displayed around the main content.
Filter 5.1 Handles the filtering of content in preparation for display.
Node 5.1 Allows content to be submitted to the site and displayed on pages.
System 5.1 Handles general site configuration for administrators.
User 5.1 Manages the user registration and login system.
Watchdog 5.1 Logs and records system events.
Image
Enabled Throttle Name Version Description
Image Allows uploading, resizing and viewing of images.
Required by: Image Attach (enabled), Image Gallery (enabled), Image assist (enabled)
Image Attach Allows easy attaching of image nodes to other content types.
Depends on: Image (enabled)
Image Gallery Allows sorting and displaying of image galleries based on categories.
Depends on: Image (enabled), Taxonomy (enabled)
Image assist $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-0 $ This module allows users to upload and insert inline images into posts. It automatically generates an Add image link under the textarea fields of your choice.
Depends on: Image (enabled)
Other
Enabled Throttle Name Version Description
Akismet 1.2 Use the Akismet Service to protect your site from spam.
Bryght Various Bryghtlicious enhancements and ponies
Date API $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-4 $ Makes the date api available to other modules.
Required by: Calendar (enabled), Calendar iCal (enabled), Date (enabled)
Google Analytics 5.0 Adds Google Analytics javascript tracking code to all your site's pages.
Pathauto $Name: DRUPAL-5 $ Provides a mechanism for modules to automatically generate aliases for the content they manage.
Depends on: Path (enabled)
reseller Allows user to create and manage hosted sites.
SimpleMenu 2.1 Creates a menu bar that is displayed at the top of every page.
TinyMCE $Name: $ The most popular WYSIWYG editor for advanced content editing.
Views
Enabled Throttle Name Version Description
Calendar $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-4 $ Adds date calendar themes to views that can display any type of date field, and creates default calendar views.
Depends on: Views (enabled), Date API (enabled)
Required by: Calendar iCal (enabled)
Calendar iCal $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-4 $ Adds ical functionality to calendar views.
Depends on: Views (enabled), Date API (enabled), Calendar (enabled)
Views $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-5 $ The views module creates customized views of node lists.
Required by: Calendar (enabled), Calendar iCal (enabled), Views RSS (enabled), Views Theme Wizard (enabled), Views UI (enabled)
Views RSS $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-5 $ RSS plugin for the views feed selector argument.
Depends on: Views (enabled)
Views Theme Wizard $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-5 $ The views theme wizard helps create stub theming for views.
Depends on: Views (enabled)
Views UI $Name: DRUPAL-5--1-5 $ The Views UI module allows you to create and edit views.
Depends on: Views (enabled)
--Dan
Adding modules
I'm the Bryght tech support guy, but just wanted to point out that publicme is correct, it's fully featured, but time-limited to 30 days before we send a bill.
If you signed of for a site either through bryght.com/signup or preview.bryght.com/signup, then you cannot add modules to the existing list. Also, there is no SSH or FTP access: all files woudld need to be uploaded through the Drupal interface. We have a separate service where you can get a Virtual Private Server (VPS) which gives you full access to the file system, including access through SSH and SFTP (secure FTP). Pricing information for that is available at http://support.bryght.com/vps/pricing.
As for Pages...I don't see any pages...I don't see Create Content > Page nor do I see a Page module...should there be a Page module?
New sites are supposed to come with the "Page" content type, but it sounds like that didn't happen to you. You can create new content types (including a "Page" content type), through Administer (top menu) » Content management » Content types, then the "Add content type" tab at the top. Give it the name "Page", then the Type of 'page' (lowercase), and enter a short descriptio. That will get you a Create content » Page menu item.