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As the site grows in complexity, we will seek to update this page in order to clarify areas of common confusion (if you can tell us what they are) and attempt to provide a general overview of our features and services.

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Feel free to follow these links to a few crucial areas:

These manual pages are an example of a BookA book is a set of pages that are tied together in a hierarchal structure.  Part of Drupal's core functionality, books are a great way to organize data into an easily navigable structure.  Books may be used for all sorts of purposes, from reference manuals to long works of fiction. (one of Drupal's core modules).  At the bottom of each page are links to the next and previous pages, as well as a link to take you back "up" to the section each page falls beneath.  In addition, the Book's outline is presented in an expandable menu format.

This page is the top of this book (the Instruction Manual).  Members with sufficient permissionsIn Drupal, permissions control access to content.  Permissions provide the ability to allow users with the appropriate role to access, create, edit, and/or delete various types of content.  There are contributed modules available that can increase the granularity of the permissions system, allowing an administrator to grant specific permissions to individual users or groups. may create childUsed to describe relationships in a hierarchy. A sub-menu would be the child of the menu of which it is a menu, for instance. The parent-child relationship may also be found in book pages and taxonomy terms. pages to any book page up to a depth of nine.  In other words, they may add a child page to this one and to the new nodeA node is a piece of content in Drupal.  A node usually corresponds to a page.  Nodes generally have a title and a body.  Nodes may have more fields (or different names for the two default fields).  Each node has a content type and may be further classified by taxonomy, the node author, and so on.  As the primary building blocks, nodes are the site in a very real way.  A large variety of core and contributed modules are available to alter the way nodes are organized, displayed, and created. created to that depth.

Books will be covered in more depth in a later section.

Your feedback regarding this instruction manual is most welcome.