How to install a database in drupal

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP.  It is used as a “backend” system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites.

Go to the cpanel, ie; where you find fantastico etc., in the databases section of the cpanel, look out for phpMyAdmin, click on it. As shown below:

You will enter a new page, on the left margin, (look out for the database name) you will find a file name with an extension _drpl1, click on it. As shown below:

This will throw up a table with Structure, SQL, Search, Query, Export, Import, Operations. As shown below:

Click on Import button on top, you will land up in a new page, you must browse for the sql file ie: theme363.sql (which you will usually find in the Sources folder), then click Go button on the far bottom right corner.

That’s it, you know how to install database in drupal.

How to edit content the welcome message in drupal.

Login to drupal using the administrator username and password.

Then click on the Administer and again click on Blocks found under Site Building as shown below:

You will enter another page as you can see below:

click on the configure part in the welcome message, as shown above circled in red.

You will enter another page, where you can edit the content of the welcome message in the block body area, once you have finished editing the content in the welcome message, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the save block button.

That’s it, you now know how to edit content the welcome message in drupal.

How to Change footer in Drupal

First of all, type your site url on the browser

http://bestwebdesignz.com/estore/admin/

Login by using the admin username and admin password

On the right side of your screen, you will see something like this below, click on the “Administer” -> “Site configuration“ -> “Site information” as squared in red.

On clicking the site information, a new page will open as shown below, go to footer message and change to your requirements.

Click on Save configuration button to save your footer changes as shown below.

That’s it, you now know how to Change footer in Drupal

Edit Blocks in Drupal

First of all, type your site url on the browser

http://bestwebdesignz.com/estore/admin/

Login by using the admin username and admin password

On the right side of your screen, you will see something like this below, click on the “Administer” squared in red.

Then click on site building, you will see a drop down menu, then click on Blocks as highlighted in red below:

You will enter a page as shown below:

You can change the content of the blocks by clicking on the configure link as highlighted in red above.

You will enter another page where you can edit Block description, block title, block body etc as shown below:

Click on the save block button found at the bottom of the page as shown below:

That’s it, you now know how to edit blocks in Drupal

Add Content in Drupal

First of all, type your site url on the browser

http://bestwebdesignz.com/estore/admin/

Login by using the admin username and admin password

On the right side of your screen, you will see something like this below, click on the Create Content squared in red.

You will enter another page as shown below, you can create content of different types such as listed in the screen shown below

That’s it you now know how to add Content in Drupal

Drupal templates allow you to completely change the look of you Drupal based site.

Browse the Drupal templates below to find one that meets your requirements.

Use the template search on the right to futher refine your template search by selecting ‘ Drupal templates’ from the category dropdown and typing in your sepecific keywords.

In these Drupal Tutorials you will learn how to Install Drupal upto configure, maintaining and manage your Drupal site, set up your own stores, managing users and changing your password in Drupal.

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is used as a “backend” system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate sites.

We assume that you have already logged into Drupal. Click on the Administer link found on the left, like the one below.

Click on the users menu as shown below.

Let’s add an user now, so click add user here.

Enter a user name for the user, his email address, enter and confirm a password for the new user, when finished click on create new account button. A new account has been created. To check out, click on the list link as shown above, you will be able to see the new user you created. From here you can edit the user by clicking on the edit link under operations or even change their passwords.

Let’s go and delete the user now, check the box on the left of the username, and select the delete the selected users in the update options and click on update button as shown below.

It will prompt you to confirm the deletion, click on delete all button to delete the user.
Now click on the user management link found  under administer link on the left menu as shown below.

Then click the Roles link, a role is a way of giving selected permission to a group of users which you can do from here as shown below.

Now click the user setting link under the user management menu found on the left of your screen as shown above. You can change many settings for the users from here.
You now know how to manage users in Drupal.

We assume that you have already logged into Drupal. Click on the Administer link found on the left like the one below.

Click on the themes link as shown below. Themes are an easy way to change the look and feel of your drupal site.

When you click the themes link, you will enter the themes page as shown below.

Click on the enable button for a new theme, then click on the default button to make it a default theme as shown above, when finished click save configuration. That’s it, you will be able to see the looks of your website, the theme has changed. You can always go to the themes page and select the default theme to what it was earlier by clicking the default button against that particular theme and remember to save your configuration.
You now know how to manage themes in drupal.

We assume that you have already logged into Drupal. Click on the Create content link found on the left like the one below.

You will enter a Create content page, you can choose to create new pages or new stories for your web site here.
Stories are articles that have a title, a teaser and a body, but can be extended by other modules. Stories may be used as a personal blog or for news articles.
Click on the story link found on the create content page, you will enter a submit story page, where you can create new stories on a drupal site. This page will prompt you to enter the title of the story, body of the story, etc and when ready click on the submit button. That’s it, a new story has been created.
Now let’ see how to edit a new story, click on the edit button as shown below.

You can edit or delete the story you created on this page, click on delete button, then click delete button again to confirm. That’s it, the new story has been deleted.
Now you know how to manage stories in drupal.