What is Drupal? (Website Software)

Drupal is the name of the website software the city uses. If you want, you can take some time and look at the Drupal Website:

» Drupal's Website

Drupal is an Open Source / Free Software CMS ( Content Management System ). Several large companies and organizations have adopted and used this software.

To name a few companies that use Drupal for various projects: Google, Virgin Records, Nokia, Symantec(AV Software), French Gov’t, MIT, Disney ABC, Led Zeppelin and even Adobe. President Obama used Drupal during his campaign.

Howto: Add a Directory Entry

Need to add someone to your department? You are in the right place. Simply follow the steps below to allow for adding a city directory entry.

Create a Directory Entry

!!! Make sure you are logged in !!!

1. URL path settings (REQUIRED)
• example: citydept-finance-staff-tbarber
2. Name: Put in the persons name
3. Title: Their Title
4. Department: What Department are they in?
5. Division: Some dept's have divisions.
6. Phone Number: Best to put your main number here with area code
7. Email: Make sure they want thier email listed!
8. Body: Not required or you can include special designations
9. Departments: Select Department
10. Rank: Anyone you want to sort to the top of your list should have a higher ranking. ie:Director's are 10, Managers are 9, etc... leave blank to sort by name.
11. Save!

Howto: Add a Page

Everything in Drupal starts with "Create Content". In order to add a page to your site, you simply click the "Create Content" link, and then Page.

Create Content >> Page

Steps to creating a page

1. Get Logged In!
2. Click Create Content » Page
3. Title: Your Page Title
4. > Menu Settings [ Dropdown ]
• Menu link title: Your Menu Link Title
• Parent item: SELECT DEPT FOR YOUR PAGE
• Weight: no need to touch this
5. Body: Add some interesting text
6. Departments: Plese select YOUR department
7. > File Attachments -- Do you have any to attach?
8. > URL path settings
• IMPORTANT
• example: citydept-finance-blah
• Where, of course, the information reflects YOUR DEPT and page
9. Save! [you are done!]

Howto: Minutes and Meeting Schedules

This will help you create the meetings and minutes schedule pages.

1. Title: Enter the Date here
2. Misc Page File: City Council
3. File Attachments:
• Change name to: Download
4. Book Outline
• Pick: Minutes or Meeting Schedules [DATE]
5. URL path settings
• ex: citycouncil-minutes-01152009
6. SAVE!

Howto: Reorder Your Books

In order to change how the books are ordered, simply go to:

Administer » Books » edit order and titles

Basic HTML

Here are a few basic HTML commands to help you as you are creating custom pages.

Make a link to something

<a href="http://ask.com/">Example Link</a>

Example Link
You must use a fully qualified URL, for example: http://diosav.org/ or http://www.diosav.org/

Make an e-mail link

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

Embed an Image

<img src="" alt="" />

Center something!

<center>something</center>

Link a Centered Image

<center><a href="linked path"><img src="image path" alt="" /></a></center>

Make something BOLD

<strong>this is bold</strong>

Make something Italic

<em>this is italic</em>

Make a list!

In order to make a list you simply need to do the following: <ul>   <li>thing 1</li>   <li>thing 2</li>   <li>thing 3</li> </ul> It should look like this when you are done:

• thing 1
• thing 2
• thing 3

To make this a ordered(numbered) list simply use: <ol> </ol>