This tutorial assumes that you have drupal installed on your system. It is a basic guide to create pages and set up navigation on your Drupal website.

Create a Page

There three types of content:

• Blog entry: A blog entry is content which is submitted by users on your website.
• Page: A page is informative only
• Story: A story contains information and can accept user comments

The first step would be to set up these pages. After logging into your Drupal website as administrator, click on 'Create Content' and then click 'Page'. Type in a title for the page (use a descriptive title, as this information will be used by search engines). Type in the body of the page.My preference is to use full html - click 'Input Format' and select 'Full HTML' to change this. If you have the 'Nodewords' module installed, you can select an optional URL path (see tutorial on how to install modules). Click 'Save'. Repeat this process for any other pages you wish to appear on the site.

Once your pages have been created you may setup some navigation.

Create a Menu Link

Start by following the click path below:

• Click 'Administer'
• Click 'Site Building'
• Click 'Menus'
• Click 'Primary Links'
• Click 'Add Item'

Next, type in the path of your page as it appears when you view the page eg. node/1 (this will be your own path if you have the Nodewords module enabled). Type in a title for the primary link. Select a weight - this weight will determine where the link appears in your menu. It is best to create a gap of about 5 between each menu link you create - this will allow addtional menu items to be easily inserted.
Click 'Save'.

You now have created a page which can be accessed via the main navigation. You may want to add a specific region to the page that contains specific information such as a navigation menu or a tip. This can be done by adding a block as described below.

Adding a Block

Follow the click path below:

• Click 'Administer'
• Click 'Site Building'
• Click 'Blocks'
• Click 'Add Block'

Next, type in a block title and body. The body could be a list of links or some information which may be relevant to specific pages. Scroll down to 'Page specific visibility settings'. Click 'Show on only the listed pages.' Type in the paths of the pages you wish to have this block appear. eg. node/1. Each page path added should be on a newline. You will see that your newly created block appears in the list. Select a region for your block eg. 'Left Sidebar'. The new block can also be dragged to appear above or below other block in the region. Click 'Save Blocks'.

There are many other useful methods to improve your Drupal website which will be discussed in future tutorials.