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Club Online User Guide
Fri, 02/16/2007 - 8:50pm — tim
User Guide :
Drupal 5.1.x is the version we are using here at NSWFC.net .. Throughout this guide we will refer to this site as the nswfc "Club Online"
Welcome! This guide describes how to get started using Club Online , a Drupal-powered web-site. The guide covers basic topics such as registering for an account, logging in, changing your account settings, and creating content.
Drupal is a content management system. Its goal is to help users compose and present web-site content such as articles, photos, and other content types. So , Club Online is a "dynamic" system; rather than forcing users to specify a fixed, pre-declared arrangement of content, Club Online takes care of the details of how information is arranged and presentated, and lets users focus on the actual content to be displayed.
Most of the content on Club Online ,a Drupal-based site (the text of this page, for example) is stored in a database. Text and images are submitted by filling in forms via a web browser. When visitors view a page, Club Online gets the relevant bits of content from the database and composes all of the components of the page in a template. This makes it easy to quickly add or change content, without requiring knowledge of HTML or other web technologies on the part of the person providing the content.
Depending on the configuration of the Club Online site and the user-roles you play with respect to this site, you may be allowed to contribute or edit content. Fortunately, Club Online is designed to make this relatively easy. Very little technical knowledge is assumed. Though details may vary with a site's configuration, the basic process involves these steps:
- register with the site
- log in by typing the user name and password supplied you in the registration step, and
- create content such as articles and stories
This user guide will explain these steps and familiarize you with the basic information you need to use Club Online successfully.
This section can also serve as a foundation for a set of instructions customized to your sites specific needs.