New user guide

The College Drupal Distribution is the Drupal CMS bundled with a custom theme, configuration, and modules that allow you to create ASU brand aligned websites. Follow this guide to get started as a new user. You can also visit the training page for additional resources.

1. Learning about Drupal

• Understanding Drupal
• Concepts for site planning and structure of Drupal
• Drupal admin menu overview

Specific for our college

• Admin menu overview
• The College Drupal Distribution: An intro for site builders

2. How to add and edit basic content

• Paths, aliases and URLS
• Creating content
• Editing content

Specific for our college

• Page types and how to create pages
• How to add content to a page
• How to format text, embed images, files and links

3. How to edit menus

• Menu concepts
• Adding a page to a menu
• Adjusting the main menu

Specific for our college

• Building ASU web standards compliant mega menus

4. How to create custom content

• Setting up custom content types and fields
• Using views to create dynamic, reusable lists of content

Specific for our college

• Building an ASU web standards compliant view