Web Guide
Overview
Welcome to our Web User Guide put together by the Web Team in the Office of Marketing and Communications. This guide will help you edit your website on Drupal with instructions on posting, style guidelines, SEO, and more.
This guide will be updated regularly with new tips, tricks, and instructions. We encourage you to check back here when you are editing your website and please do not hesitate to reach out to our team if any questions arise.
What Is Drupal?
To build and manage our sites, we use a platform called Drupal - a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use content management system (CMS). It allows users to create, edit, and organize content through a web-based interface — no coding required. Known for its scalability and customization options, Drupal is widely used in higher ed. Penn, Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge are just a few of the hundreds of university sites that use it.
Access, Login, and Site Basics
- How do I get website access?
- How can I get training?
- How do I log into the site?
- What if I forget my password?
- Do I have to know any code?
- What will I actually be editing?
- Where can I see all the available components for my site?
- Are there different types of pages I will be editing?
- What do I need to know about page types?
Learn how to access your sites and login, plus understand how pages are structured
Managing Your Site
How to Edit
- What do I need to know about the page editor?
- What is the WYSIWYG editor and how do I use it?
- How do I log revisions?
- How do I get approval to publish a page if I need it?
- How do I publish a page to the live site?
- How do I schedule a draft to publish in the future?
- How can I revert the page back to before I made changes?
Editing Existing Pages
- How do I use the landing page editor?
- How can I identify what component I need to edit?
- How do I edit a component?
- How do I add a component?
- How do I remove a component?
- What do I need to know about the chaptered page editor?
- How do I edit a chaptered page?
- How do I edit components other than the WYSIWYG component?
- How do I add a chapter?
- How do I reorder chapters?
- How do I remove a chapter?
- How do I add a component to a page chapter?
- What's a basic page?
- How do I edit it?
Learn how to edit landing pages