User Guide
Welcome! This guide describes how to get started with a Bloggyland website. The guide covers basic topics such as registering for an account, logging in, changing your account settings, and creating content.
Bloggyland is built on the Drupal content management system, and can be used to compose and present website content such as articles, photos, and other content types. Bloggyland is a "dynamic" system - rather than forcing users to specify a fixed, pre-declared arrangement of content, Bloggyland takes care of the details of how information is arranged and presentated, and lets users focus on the actual content to be displayed.
Most of the content on a Bloggyland-based site - the text of this page, for example - is stored in a database. Text and images are submitted by filling in forms via a web-browser. When visitors view a page, Bloggyland gets the relevant bits of content from the database and composes all of the components of the page in a template. This makes it easy to quickly add or change content, without requiring knowledge of HTML or other web-technologies on the part of the person providing the content.
Depending on the configuration of the Bloggyland site and the user-roles you play with respect to that site, you may be allowed to contribute or edit content. Fortunately, Bloggyland is designed to make this relatively easy. Very little technical knowledge is assumed. Though details may vary with a site's configuration, the basic process involves these steps:
- register with the site
- log in by typing the user name and password supplied you in the registration step, and
- create content (e.g., articles, stories) into forms.
This user guide will explain these steps and familiarize you with the basic information you need to use Bloggyland successfully.
This section can also serve as a foundation for a set of instructions customized to your sites specific needs.
