In this blog tutorial I will explain briefly outline the parts drupal 6 which have succeeded to install. In serial, part per part will be explained in more detail in subsequent tutorials. Additional notes, in drupal 6 tutorial introduction to this, drupal 6 is still pure, yet there is an additional module or adding any themes.

As the last image that appears in your browser page, there are four parts you can see.

* Header
The first part is dark blue with the logo on drupal and Drupalku site name.
* Sidebar Block
Part of the left sidebar called the block-block holds, where currently there is only one block that is an admin account.
* Main Page
The center of the page is the main page .. This page will be filled by your content, if the posts are set to appear on the front page (default is immediately appear on the front).
* Footer
The lower part of the site, currently only contains a small logo drupal.

Your current status is entered / logged in as admin, as you know that as an admin, you can do anything on this site. We will try to discuss, what can you see and do as an admin.

There are four main menu, namely

* My account
Contains the identity of the owner of this account is the admin.
* Create content
Menu to create new content. Type of content depending on what type of content that will be activated.
* Administer
Administer the main menu from an admin. Inside are many options for setting the overall tools content.
* Log out
Round out the menu for you to log in as admin.

Here’s an explanation of each part of the admin account.

In the My Account menu, there are two menu tabs presented, namely View the current access and edit your. Through the View you can see the History of your membership, where the old admin 1 week 5 days. This section will grow as your item as admin already started construction of the site.

The second tab is menu Edit. This section has an editing function for your account information, the user name, e-mail address, password and your account status. As an admin, you can edit the users who will be a member on your site. Moreover, if there is a “bad”, you can use to lock the blocked status of membership of the site. To set the Time zone, as in the previous tutorial, leave the way they are.

Create content menu used to create site content (content). Drupal default there are two types of content that is provided

* Page
Page content type used to create static pages in a site. Examples such as About Us, Policy, and so on. The pages created using Page content type is usually not intended to allow visitors to comment, in the sense that it is only for information pages.
* Story
Story content type is usually used to create a more dynamic pages are usually allows visitors to provide comments. This content type could be to create a daily journal. In some cases, Story content type is also used by some drupal users to create blogs. But in reality, the type of content is also provided their own blogs by drupal.

For a discussion on Create content and the deeper part, will be discussed in subsequent tutorials. We will proceed to the next menu to get you better understand the first parts of an outline of the drupal installation that you have done.
# Administer
Administer menu is the main menu of your admin account. Through this menu you can manage all activities on the site. In drupal version 6, the division’s admin pages are grouped into sub-sub menu, it will assist you in understanding each functions contained. In addition, there are two menu tabs that are used to make the distinction sub-groupings in the Administer menu this. By task and by module. I myself more familiar with the By task because it is more often used and this is also the same as the names of the sub menu Administer menu.

Cron has not run
If you look at this Administer section, you can see there is a green line just below the two tabs and menu By By task module. “Cron has not run. Please visit the status report for more information “. One small part of the drupal cron is a feature. Cron feature serves to index all site content into local search engine (which you install drupal). In addition, there are some module that also need cron running .. Considering you have just installed drupal, cron had not been executed. Warning order is lost, you can run manually by running the command in your browser http://localhost/mydrupal/cron.php. This command if completed will result in blank white page or pages only. However, you also can run a cron it by clicking on the status of trouble that came in it.

When you click the link status report, you’ll be taken to the page status report. This page gives information on whether you installed drupal having problems or not. You can also see whether the device is supporting drupal server can serve the needs of drupal or not, like the version of PHP, PHP memory limit, GD Library, etc.. Through this page you only want to run the cron. Find and click on the link manually run cron.

Once you click, you will be given confirmation that the successful cron runs. Cron ran successfully. Feel free to return to the previous menu on the Administer menu. Warning green color is gone now after you run this cron.

The following sub-menu of the page or menu Administer:

Content management

# Content management focused to manage all site activities associated with the content or postings. Comments, content, content type, setting pemostingan, RSS, until the taxonomy or categorization problem can be handled and managed through the sub-menu.

Site building

# Site building works to build things and fundamental importance of a site. Blocks, Menus, Modules, and Themes is the basic of building a drupal site. The things you can do this through the sub menu include the addition of a module, making the site menu, setting up to block the display problem in the form of themes.

User management

# Sites dynamic nature must not be separated from visitors or the member’s involvement. Well this dibagian reserved for settings related to the activities of visitors. Access rules, Permissions, Roles, User settings, Users. Things you can do the other set from the security side, the access rights page, to setting the user levels.

Reports

# Sub-menu presents the Report or the reports of monitoring activity drupal site. Recent log entries, Top acces denied errors, Top page not found errors and status report. You can enable some additional module to increase the completeness of the Reports.

Site configuration

# Site configuration function for setting things in more detail from a website. Almost every addition of a new module, you also need to set the configuration in this sub menu. The things you can do the other settings when the input data format to the site, site performance to manage the site more efficient, to make the status of the site off-line when you are to perform maintenance or repairs. Details of each sub menu will be explained in the next tutorial.

Help

# The people who often forget to access the Administer sub-menu is Help. Actually, this section is included for the purpose you have read and understood. You will be able to understand the terms used in drupal as nodes, blocks, and taxonomy. To more deeply about drupal, also provided a link to access the drupal handbook it. Help is highly recommended to read as a beginner.

Logout
To end the adventure today as admin drupal, do not forget to logout, so you will become a regular user again.

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