Adding content

Drupal, being a CMS, has a number of facilities which enable us to add various kinds of content in ways that don't require extensive knowledge of HTML or even the creation of HTML pages. The guidelines provided here are those that will enable the BGA website to continue in its current format.

It is strongly recommended that these guidelines are used to add content as these not only produce a consistent style of page and website, but also provide facilities, e.g. an RSS feed and the navigation menu, as a by-product.

Note: It is extremely strongly recommended that whenever you're adding or modifying content that you press the Preview button before Submitting your updates. If you do then DON'T hit the back button afterwards to continue editing as you will lose your updates.

Note: When using URLs Drupal does not require that you include an extension, and arguably it's better if we don't use them in future. However, any reference to another page on the site must match exactly the URL that is allocated for the item in question. That is, if an extension is used when the item is created then it must be quoted in the reference. If not, then not.

Note: The PHP script for the News block on the front page shows the latest 5 Story/News items (not pages or other type of entries) that are created on the website.