Working with Content

Upload, embed, and link to files into your page content

The system allows you to embed files into your text in two different ways; through the Media Library or through the Insert File icon. Ideally, you should only be using the Insert Media icon, but here's an outline as to why:

Content Auditing

Stale, out-of-date content is always a problem on websites, especially those that have been around for a long time and have grown in size and content. SiteFarm gives you the ability to implement both an active and passive review system to help you keep an eye on content that needs a touch-up, a complete rewrite, or to be entirely removed.

Performing these audits brings great benefits:

A woman in a business suit holding a sign reading "Quality Control"

Content Audit Tool

The images contained in this gallery show the options available in the content audit system introduced in the SiteFarm 3.0 release.

Feature Box

Within the WYSIWYG users have the ability to insert a Feature Box widget that includes a title and body area. The output will be embedded in the body of the page, and be styled to make it stand out visually.

Tables

In a world of smartphones and mobile web, HTML tables are creatures that must be approached with caution. We want you to use tables conservatively and with full knowledge of what choosing to do so will mean for your site. In the majority of cases, tables should only be used for tabular data and never to achieve a specific kind of page layout.

Insert Pull Quotes

You have the ability to emphasize portions of your text content by styling it as a block quote or pull quote.

Using the WYSIWYG

The page interface you will most commonly use to input your content is the WYSIWYG, an acronym that stands for "What You See Is What You Get". Get an overview of what the icons mean and how to use this to your best advantage.

Adding Content

  1. From your admin panel, click either Shortcuts » Add content or Manage » Content » Add content button
  3. From the Add Content page, select the content type most appropriate for your content
  4. Edit your node by adding content in the provided fields and/or WYSIWYG body field.
    • Article
    • Basic Page
    • Event
    • Image Gallery
    • Person
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Working with Content

Understanding content types

A single website can contain many types of content, such as informational pages, news items, polls, blog posts, academic programs listings, etc. In Drupal, each item of content is called a node, and each node belongs to a single content type, which defines various default settings for nodes of that type, such as whether the node is published automatically and whether comments are permitted. (Note that in previous versions of Drupal, content types were known as node types.)

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