"Content" is the information in a Drupal website that is presented to its users. Drupal Gardens come with some standard, pre-configured "content types". These vary depending on which features you choose to enable during site creation and which modules you enable on your site.
Content types - what are they?
Content types allow you to create content that exactly suits the kind of information you are presenting on your site, whether a page, story, forum topic, poll, image, restaurant, record album, or anything else. All Drupal content has a title and a body, but this isn't always enough to differentiate between different kinds of content. To define specific characteristics of different kinds of content, you can add and change the fields on existing content types and you can create new content types with the fields needed to describe it .
Different content types are created with different functions in mind and therefore have different sets of fields. Defining your content by content type also gives you one more criterion that allows you to sort and publish your content in different ways and places on your site.
You can customize the existing content types or create new ones for specific purposes.
Site administrators can edit content types' standard settings and define custom content types at Structure > Content types.
Examples:
- Drupal Gardens' standard 'Blog Entry' content type has three fields: title, body (a text field) and tags.
- A 'Rock Album' content type, in addition to the title and description (body), would need fields like: the track list, the band name, the band members, links to the band website and online sources for the recording, and so on.
- A 'restaurant' content type for a site about eating out might including fields like: review (body), address, opening hours, style of cuisine, links to the restaurant website, links to other reviews, price range, and a text field for additional info (wine list, cocktail selection, brunch specials, etc.). The same blog's 'bar' content type would not have a cuisine field, but perhaps a list of single malt whiskeys on the menu and another of the beers on tap.