(To work on the menu settings part I had to go to Tools, Options, untick Java Script).

To add an Article go to Content Management, Create Content, Article. 

Type in the title of the article in the Title box 

In the Vocabularies box you will see Topics, Article type and keywords. (Taxonomy is about vocabularies and each vocabulary has terms, like a category, in it). Selecting from the Topics drop down is optional and you can select more than one, by holding the “Control” key and selecting the topics you want. Some topics might require that you select General from the Article type and then a more specific category from the Topics drop down. You do have to select from the Article type, e.g. Editorial.

In the Keywords section, the user can input new terms if they want to. If you typed in “c” it could come up with possibilities for that letter and you could select any of these, if appropriate. If you wanted a new keyword, type it in, e.g. Caux 2008. This would then be saved as a new keyword.

In the Body field the text can be have an introduction/teaser and you can choose whether the teaser is displayed in the main body of the text or not.

Select language and author.

Groups – this will be covered later!

Book outline. There is the possibility to place a node into a book structure. The content is structured into a hierarchical form, like Chapter and section 1, sub section. This is useful for presenting something, e.g. in the User manual and webmaster manual there is a book with child pages. So you need to think “Do I want this article to be a part of a book?”. The book would be in the drop-down section. Attach it as a child for a page in the book.

In the Search engine keywords box add keywords that would not visible on the website, but which are used by search engines like Google.

Create new revision – we may well use this and allow this for network members. It would allow users to edit, a decision needs to be made on whether this is moderated or not. You could then compare the old version with revised versions by going to http://drupalproject.iofc.org/node/293/revisions
The default will be ticked so that we can track changes – this will be for editing, not creating of course.
Look at Revision for definition of terms article and click on "Show diff". You will see the older version and the newer one, with changes in red.

Log message – put a note of any changes.

Comment settings – the policy on this still needs deciding on. What would probably happen is this: a public visitor cannot leave a message, they would have to be logged in and be a site member to leave a comment; if a comment about an article is on the public site it should be moderated; if it is private, it wouldn't need moderating. So leave this for now.

Url path settings – we won't usually use this. It is where we would put anything that can be used as an alias. This may well be hidden for articles.

The Authored by will probably be changed to “Posted by” whre you put the name of the person adding the article to the site.

The Posted on box can be left empty, though you could change it to another date if you needed to. The date of the article is more important.

In the Posting options, if the Published box is ticked it is indicating that it is visible. The Promoted to front page box should be left unless you don't want the article to appear on the homepage, if say you felt other articles were more important.
Sticky at top of lists could be selected if you wanted the article to remain at the top of the latest 3 articles on the hompeage until you deselected this. To be more specific about the order please refer to Nodequeue section of this manual which would allow you to control the node list so you could decide in what order things appear.

If you later want to edit an article go to Content Management, Content and you will see a list of articles. Edit the one you want by clicking edit on the correct article.