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Time Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Content Management in Admin Interface.
00:07 In this tutorial, we will explore the Drupal interface.
00:13 We will also learn about some menu items, such as * Content* Structure and * Appearance
00:23 To record this tutorial, I am using
  • Ubuntu Operating System
  • Drupal 8 and Firefox web browser
00:34 You can use any web browser as per your choice.
00:39 Let us open our website which we created earlier.
00:44 Before we explore the Drupal interface in detail, let me highlight a few really important terms.
00:53 Remember - because we setup our Drupal site, we are the user number one or the super user.
01:02 Super user is above all other users in Drupal.We may set up some other administrators who have all the permissions, in the future.
01:13 But, those permissions also can be revoked or managed by the Super user.
01:20 The Super user’s permission can never be revoked.
01:24 In other words, Super user has access to every area of the Drupal site.
01:30 Remember - user number one is the Super user in any Drupal site.
01:36 This is the administrative toolbar.
01:40 When we click on Manage, we are taken to the submenu.Here, we can see Content, Structure, Appearance, etc and we will look at them in a little while.
01:55 If we click on Shortcuts, there is a Shortcuts tool bar here.Again we will look at it in a few minutes.
02:06 When we click on admin, we can see the links to our own profile or to Log out.
02:13 It is called admin in the tool bar, because that is the username I put in.Yours may be different.
02:23 Once again, this is the administration toolbar. And it in an important part of our Drupal administration experience.
02:33 It is quite simple to add something to the Shortcut bar.
02:38 For example- Say, I am in Manage, Content >> Add Content.
02:45 And I want to add an Article to my website.Notice a star here, that isn’t filled in.
02:55 By clicking on the star, I can add it to the Shortcuts.
03:01 Now if we click on Shortcuts, we will see a Create Article menu item in the Shortcuts.
03:10 And we can easily remove it when we have finished creating articles.
03:15 This can be done from virtually any' administration screen on our Drupal site.'Shortcuts make it really quick to move around.
03:25 Now, let me click on Appearance.Notice that there are tabs and these kind of tabs will appear all over the site.
03:36 These tabs are important and they are called section tabs.
03:41 They look at different sections of whatever screen we might be working on.
03:47 Sometimes these sections have sub-section buttons, like the ones you are seeing here.
03:54 Global settings, Bartik, Classy and Seven are the sub-section buttons of the Settings tab.
04:02 Lastly, every Drupal Content item is called a node.
04:08 We don’t have any nodes or any content yet, on our site.
04:13 We will be creating those in upcoming tutorials.
04:17 Administration toolbar, sub-menu, section tabs and sub-section buttons.
04:23 These are some things you will need to know as we move through the Drupal interface.
04:30 Let us take a look at the Content link in our toolbar.
04:35 When we click on Content, we are directed to a dashboard.The dashboard lays out all the content on the site.
04:45 We can filter by Published or Unpublished.We can filter by Content Type also or we can search by any Title and choose any Language.
04:57 Since we do not have content yet, this page is a little limited.
05:03 If we click on the subtabs here, we can see that there are no comments so far.
05:10 And if we click on the word Files, we will get a listing of all the files that have been uploaded so far.
05:18 These could be either an image or some kind of file.We will learn about them later.
05:25 Let’s click on Add content and add a welcome article to our Homepage.
05:32 Click on Article.Let us type “Welcome to Drupalville.”
05:40 The name of our site is “Drupalville”.And it is going to give all kinds of information about Drupal.
05:49 In the body, we’ll type something like -

Welcome to our site! We are so glad you stopped by!”

05:57 Now we will not go into all the fields.We will cover that in later tutorials.
06:06 But, in the Tags we will put welcome, Drupal.
06:11 This will create links to a list of all articles that we give these tags.
06:18 We can also upload an image here.
06:22 I have already downloaded and saved a Drupal 8 logo on my machine.
06:29 For your convenience, the Drupal 8 logo has been provided in the Code Files link in the webpage of this tutorial.
06:39 Please download and use it.
06:41 Click Browse and locate the saved image.Notice that as soon as we upload it, Drupal asks for an Alternative text which is required.
06:54 The little red asterix indicates that it’s mandatory.
07:00 Alternative text is what screen readers see and blind people hear and what google finds when it looks at our site.
07:09 Type This is the Drupal 8 logo.Now click Save and publish.
07:17 We have just created our very first node on our new Drupal site.
07:23 Now, when we click on Content, the node is listed.The Title, Content Type, who created it, the Status of the node, the last update time.
07:37 And some operations that we can do like Edit, Delete, etc.We will be learning about them soon.
07:47 That’s the content in our administrative toolbar.
07:52 The next link on the Administrative toolbar is Structure.Let’s click on that.
07:58 Structure is where we build our site in Drupal. Its also called as site building.
08:07 There are a number of things here -Block layout, Comment types, Contact forms, Content types, Display modes, Menus, Taxonomy, Views.
08:21 These options tell us that most of our site building is done in Structure and Content menu items.
08:30 For now, let’s click on Block layout.
08:34 We can place blocks in a variety of areas in our site based on our Theme.We will cover it in more detail later.
08:45 Click on Custom block library and let’s add a welcome block.
08:50 Click on Add Custom block and let’s call it Welcome to Drupalville.
08:57 In the Body, type- "Welcome to Drupalville. This is where you’ll learn all about Drupal!"
09:06 Please note - this is not content. Blocks are a little bit different and are like the sidebars.
09:15 Now let’s click Save.
09:18 We have our block and now we can decide where to place it.
09:22 Click on Block layout again.Scroll down to Sidebar first and click Place block.
09:33 A pop up window of all the blocks that are available to be placed on our Drupal site appears.
09:41 Locate the Custom block we created - "Welcome to Drupalville".Then click on Place block.
09:49 There are some restrictions here, which we will learn about in an another tutorial.For now, click on Save block.
09:59 Let’s go to our Homepage and we should see "Welcome to Drupalville".
10:04 It may not be the in the order we want or in the location we want right now, but that is ok.
10:13 This is the part of the site building process in the Structure menu item.
10:19 Let us click on the next item on our Administration toolbar, that is Appearance.
10:26 This gives us an overview of all the Themes that are available for our Drupal site.It also gives us the ability to check for updates and do global settings.
10:38 For now, let’s click on Settings for Bartik.
10:44 This is where we will manage the look and feel of our site depending upon the Theme we have selected.
10:52 We can update the colour scheme here for Bartik by choosing a different one.Or even manually choose the colours on our own.
11:03 This will give us a preview.We can also Toggle the display for some of these, on our site.
11:12 Scroll back to the top, and click on Global settings.Here, we can change the logo for our site, give it a custom Path, or even upload a new one.
11:26 What will happen if we click Save without uploading a new one?
11:31 Go back to our site and we will notice that the logo has gone.
11:36 To bring it back again, click on Appearance, then Settings and Global settings.Click on Use the default logo and click Save configuration.
11:50 Now, no matter how many pages we have on our site, our logo will appear on all the page.
11:58 That’s where we manage the Themes for our Drupal site under the Appearance tab.With this we come to the end of this tutorial.
12:08 Let us summarize.In this tutorial we have learnt to navigate our Drupal interface.
12:15 We have also learnt about menu items
  • Content
  • Structure and
  • Appearance
12:33 This video is adapted from Acquia and OSTraining and revised by Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay.
12:44 The video at this link summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.Pls download and watch it.
12:52 The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates.For more details, please write to us.
13:02 Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development And NVLI, Ministry of Culture Government of India.
13:17 This is Calvin Nikil Tomy signing off.Thanks for joining.

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Nancyvarkey, Pratik kamble, Sandhya.np14