Welcome to the Drupal tutorial. This is for ministers featured on the Scottish Wedding Ceremony website and provides instructions on logging in, creating and editing your section of the site.
When you log in you will always land on your "drupal administration home" page, which is different from your "ministers" page. Your "drupal administration home" page allows you to set your password and email address with which administrators should communicate with you. It additionally provides a mechanism for you to create your "ministers" page, which is your platform to communicate with the general public.
To login go to the Login Page
This section will focus on how to edit your ministers page. Once you have created your ministers page you will want to make a variety of other adjustments both technical and personal to your page. Personalising options include changing textual content, adding some of your own images in the left hand column, or to the slideshow on the top of the page. Technical adjustments are mostly search engine related.
To find your ministers page, use this find us link or the one on the main menu at the top of the page.
In order to edit the page you must be logged in and then click the edit button, as described on the First Time Login slider. Don't forget to save when you are finished with your edits.
NAME & PAGE TITLE
By default Name is the Title that appears both at the top of the page and in the 'metatag' title which is used by search engines. We have named this field "Name" because we recommend that you use your own name for this. In this example, 'Bobby MacGee'.
You should enter text in the "Page Title" field, this is then put in the "metatag Title" that appears with search engines. For example, as in the screenshot below,
"Scottish Wedding Ceremonies in Aberdeen" is the title as it appears on a search in Google. This is one of the important entities that search engines look at when deciding where to place a site in the search results, so 'Scottish Wedding Ceremonies in Aberdeen' is a much better title than 'Bobby MacGee' or even 'Organising your Wedding'. The latter two provide neither search engines nor potential clients sufficient information about that page.
IMAGES IN BODY
This section provides your image entry point. In keeping with the site design images can only be inserted in the left hand column, and by default one image is automatically displayed for you. It is recommended that you only enter images of the same width so that the text on your page will line up and display neatly (photos on the main site have been chosen to be "417px"). The length of the photos are not important. It is further recommended that you add as many images as are required to maintain the text in the right hand column.
Click on "Choose a file", then search for the file you wish to upload and select it. Next you must click on the "Upload" button to explicitly upload the image. You must then "Save" your "Ministers" page before the uploaded image will be actually be associated with and displayed on your page.
DESCRIPTION
This determines the main content of a given page and uses the Drupal FCK Editor interface, which is much like Word. The body field is restricted to the use of bold, italics, and underline.
From a web marketing perspective, it's useful to use the words in the Title a few times in the Body section of the page (not necessarily in the same order). This should happen naturally, after all the Title is what this page is about!
IMAGES FOR TOP SLIDESHOW
This section provides your image slideshow entry point. By default one image is automatically displayed for you in your default slideshow. It is recommended that you enter slideshow images of "930px" wide and "360px" long. However, the website software, Drupal, does a very good job of scaling and cropping any image that you enter.
Click on "Choose a file", then search for the file you wish to upload and select it. Next you must click on the "Upload" button to explicitly upload the image. By default you are provided with two slots for uploading photos. In order to add more slots to add additional photos use the "Add another item" button, to obtain another file selection/upload slot. You must then "Save" your "Ministers" page before the uploaded image will be actually be associated with and displayed on your page.
META TAGS
Meta tags provide information about each page to search engines.
Description - This is your synopsis of the page and should be used to sell yourself to people looking at a list of search results. The Description should entice visitors to click your site. Google won't place your site higher or lower based on the Description. Do not just put a list of keywords in here, that's what the Keyword field is for!
Keywords - Each page will have different keywords that you'd like it to appear with search engines for. This field should list keywords (or more aptly, key phrases) separated by commas.
Some pointers:
- It's OK to repeat a keyword one or two times if it's as part of a phrase (e.g. 'Scottish minister Dundee' is different to 'Dundee Scottish ministers'), but don't repeat any exact keyword more than once (e.g.Glasgow, Glasgow, ...) as this will likely encourage search engines to ignore your Keywords.
- Any keyword should also appear in the Body of your page at least once.
URL PATH SETTINGS
The site automatically generates this based on the title, so if you leave this blank, by default the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) will match the title.
The URL of a page for example might be "/drupal-tutorial-for-ministers". This forms part of the overall address of this page:
http://www.scottishweddingceremony.co.uk/drupal-tutorial-for-ministers
To modify it, untick the 'Automatic Alias' box, then change it.
PUBLISHING OPTIONS
If you're working on a page, but don't finish it in one go, click to expand 'Publishing Options', then untick 'Published'. This will mean that only site administrators will be able to see this page.
To publish the page once you have finished it, simply tick 'Published' again.
SAVE
This is the most important button on the Create Content page - remember to press 'Save' once you've finished creating or editing a page!
Alternatively, press 'Preview', which shows you what the page looks like, then scroll down to the bottom and press 'Save'.
You are now presented with a series of fields which should be filled out during this important page creation stage. The "Edit Your Ministers Page" provides further information on these and other important fields relating to further personalising and search engine optimising your page.
NAME
By default Name is the Title that appears both at the top of the page and in the 'metatag' title which is used by search engines. We have named this field "Name" because we recommend that you use your own name for this. In this example, 'Bobby MacGee'.
PHOTO
This is the photo of you that will appear on the "Find Us" page, and on your ministers page, as can be seen in the image below. The image should be 80px - by - 80px. For bigger images Drupal will automatically crop the image, hence the top and bottom portions of the image will not be displayed.
LOCATION 1 and 2
You can enter up to two locations. You can see how they will be displayed in the slide above.
Willing To Travel, Phone, Email
Are self explanatory. Checkbox if you are willing to travel, plus your phone and email contact details.
IMAGES IN BODY
See the "Edit your Ministers Page".
DESCRIPTION
This determines the main content of a given page and uses the Drupal FCK Editor interface, which is much like Word. The body field is restricted to the use of bold, italics, and underline.
From a web marketing perspective, it's useful to use the words in the Title a few times in the Body section of the page (not necessarily in the same order). This should happen naturally, after all the Title is what this page is about!
IMAGES FOR TOP SLIDESHOW
See the "Edit your Ministers Page".
OTHER FIELDS
Some these are explained in the "Edit your Ministers Page".
SAVE
This is the most important button on the Create Content page - remember to press 'Save' once you've finished creating or editing a page!
Alternatively, press 'Preview', which shows you what the page looks like, then scroll down to the bottom and press 'Save'.
Login using your username and password.
Edit Link
is always located at the top left hand corner of any page that you have the rights to edit. The edit link is highlighted in the image on the left.
Logout Link
once logged in the logout link is always located at the top right hand corner of any page. The logout link is highlighted in the image on the left.
Edit Your Admin Details
When you first log in, you should edit your administration details. This can be done by clicking the "Edit" link on the first page you reach after you've logged in.
Change your email address and create a new password. Ideally change the password to something secure, (e.g a combination of letters, numbers and symbols). Don't forget to save the changes, by clicking the save button at the end of the page.
Create Your "Ministers" Page
After your first login you should create your "ministers" page. This is done by clicking on the link as indicated in the screenshot on the left.
Ministers of The Interfaith Seminary are part of the RIMA, the professional register of ordained and insured wedding celebrants who live and work by the Code of Ethics of the One Spirit Interfaith Foundation.