Drupal 6

We are going to have a very basic theme running before we start messing around with templates and so forth. All I need to do is move our logo and favicon into the theme folder to replace the default files, change a few things in the layout css to position the page elements, add a few background images and tweaks to cbmc.css (the old STARTERKIT.css file) and modify a few bits on the html elements.

The contact form in Drupal can be used to filter mail and enquiries to different email addresses by way of the (not to be confused with Drupal 5's 'category' tagging) categories that you can set up.The great news is the module is already in Drupal 6 Core, so no pesky uploads and downloads!

To set it up:

Go to site building >> modules > Click the box to turn on the "Contact module" found in the Drupal core list.

Go back to Site Building >> Contact Form

You can enhance  your drupal user profiles by adding custom fields through the CCK module (installed earlier).

Go to User Management >> Profiles

You should see a list similar to:

Add new field

• single-line textfield
• multi-line textfield
• checkbox
• list selection
• freeform list
• URL
• date

Clicking one of the field options will take you to an initial configuration page - don't worry, most fields can be altered later and reordered int the drag and drop interface.

We dont want to be writing in code evry time we need to do a post - we want a wysiwyg text editor so the first third party module I install is TinyMCE. I needed to download two things for this to work - the module to integrate TinyMCE to our Drupal site and the application itself...

So welcome to our new Drupal 6 website, in this series of posts we will be documenting everything we do in building this site no matter how trivial or obvious it seems. To start at the beginning then - this post is about first steps, filling in the basic site information fiddling with the display a bit, uploading our logo and favicon and creating the 'tags' that will describe our future content.