Creating a New Page in Drupal
1. In the workbench tab, click “Create Content”
2. You will be given the frameworks for how you want your page to be structured. These content frameworks are very important as they determine the type of menu that will be available in that content type. The two types that are most used are the “UTC Academic Internal Page” and the “UTC Admin Internal Page”.
Like these names suggest, the academic page is for academic and faculty-related content, while the admin page is for administrative and staff-related content. For example, if you are creating a School of Education page, then you will need to use the “Academic Internal Page” to access your workbench menu and footer options. If you are updating a Human Resources page, you will need to use the “UTC Admin Internal Page”.
3. After selecting the correct page framework, navigate to the right sidebar and click workbench and enter the department for this page in the UTC organization Section field. Entering an organizational name is required. Should you forget to enter this in, your page will not be saved. If you have trouble saving your page, it’s probably because you did not enter this correctly.
4. Next, you will create a “title” and an “SEO title” for your page. The SEO title is the title the search engine, such as Google, will display in its searches. For instance, you may want to title your page something general like “About Us”. However, that’s not very descriptive for searches, so the SEO title may be different like “About School of Education”.
5. Under the “Meta Tags” section in the right sidebar, you will find the “PAGE Description”. Please write a brief and concise summary of the page’s content that is a maximum of 160 characters in length. The description of a meta tag may be used by search engines to display a snippet of the page in search results.
You will not be able to start your content page without completing this section.
4. Above the Title of your page, you will see the save button and a dropdown menu with the publishing options. The most common ones you’ll use are Draft, Publish, and Unpublished.
If you are creating a new page, select the “draft” option until you have your content placed on the page. Then click “Save As”.