Step 2: Add your content

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It's time to do what you came here for: tell the world your message ... add content to your site!

You can think of your content in Drupal as pages. Every piece of content you add, which is called a "node" in Drupal, has its own URL and can be a page of your site. One exciting part of Drupal is that you can also create pages of multiple content items. To learn more, see "content" and "pages" in the Drupal jargon primer.

All of your content is associated with a content type. Content types are designed to hold certain kinds of information (text, numbers, images, etc.) and behave in a specific way. Depending on the features you enable, Drupal Gardens provides content types that work for different purposes, such as blog entries, FAQ items, and galleries.

Now it's time to add content. You can select one of the built-in content types, such as the "Basic page" that is used in the example below, but you can also customize and create new content types on your site. There are three main steps to creating content:

1. Add a page and create your content.
2. Choose your page settings.
3. Publish your page.

Add a page and create your content

1. Click Add content.

   

2. Click Basic page.

   

3. Enter a title for your page and some text using the WYSIWYG editor.

   

   The WYSIWYG editor works as you would expect, allowing you to format your content as it displayed on your site. You can enter plain text or your own HTML formatting by selecting the HTML tab at the top right.

4. Add an image by clicking the Add media link. You can upload images from your computer or link to images on the web and YouTube videos.

   

5. After you've uploaded your image, you can choose how the image will be displayed on your page.

   

   Note: Adding media to your site adds it to your Media Library, where it is available for you to reuse anywhere on your site: in galleries, other posts, and so on.

   

Choose your page settings

Now that you have said what you want to say, it's time to check a couple of the most important settings, and then publish your work.

At the bottom of the content creation page, there are some panels (the exact number depends on the features that are active on your site) labeled "settings", "options", or "information", and they control the behavior of your page. Their default settings are determined by the content type's settings, which you can change, and they can be overridden for individual items. For detailed information on all of these settings, see Common content settings.

• Menu settings - You can make your page available in a menu. This is a good idea for a basic page like this one, but probably not for less permanent content like blog posts.

  

  Menu link title and Description set how your link appears. The Parent item and weight set which menu to include it in and how it will be sorted.

• Comment settings - Depending on what kind of site you are building, you might want visitors to be able to leave comments, for example on blog posts, but not on the basic information pages of your site. For more information, including how to set up comment moderation, see Comments.

  

Publish your page

To save your page and publish it on your website, click Publish. You can also choose to save it without publishing it by clicking Save as draft.

You can see the "My cars" page has been saved and added to the main menu.

Take it further: For more in-depth information on content-options and -settings, see the Common content settings.

Continue to Step 3: Personalize and customize your site >