By Robert T. Douglass, Mike Little, Jared W. Smith

The name is especially deceptive. there's little during this publication approximately "building on-line communities". particularly it's a e-book approximately instruments which are used for construction on-line communities.

moment, the data, really on Drupal, is particularly a lot outmoded. The book's dialogue is ready Drupal model 4.6.Drupal is presently at model 6.10 and there are immense differences.

Likewise, the e-book describes phpBB v2.0.x - and the present model is 3.0.4. There are what volume to some notes within the ebook in regards to the more moderen model, yet no longer a lot. The notes have been sincerely an afterthought.

WordPress v. 1.5 is defined. the present model is 2.7 - and much has changed.

ultimately the intensity and caliber of guide supplied this is constrained. there's not whatever you cannot locate on-line and many it kind of feels copied nearly verbatim from on-line sources.

there's virtually not anything major approximately "building on-line communities". just a few generalities.

total, this isn't a really pleasurable booklet at the moment. The identify is deceptive. the topic types are superseded. and there's little right here you cannot locate online.

Jerry

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4. Give this vocabulary the name Tags. Skip the Description and Help text for now. The Types field lists all of the various content types that you have enabled. Check the box next to Page. Find the Free Tagging check box and check it. Then click Submit. 5. Create a new page by clicking create content and choosing Page. 6. On the content-creation form, underneath the Title field, is a new field called Tags. Here is where you enter your tags. Tags are separated by commas, allowing you to make multiple-word tags.

Then click Submit. 5. Create a new page by clicking create content and choosing Page. 6. On the content-creation form, underneath the Title field, is a new field called Tags. Here is where you enter your tags. Tags are separated by commas, allowing you to make multiple-word tags. For example, “City, New York, Travel” would create three tags for the page: City, New York, and Travel. Enter some tags for the page, finish creating the body text for the page, and click Submit. 7. The newly created page will show each of the tags you entered as a link.

When you provide this information and click Submit, Drupal will attempt to send a message to the e-mail address you provided. The e-mail will contain the randomly generated password for your admin user account. This password will also be displayed on the screen. Write down (or copy) this password, in case something goes wrong in the following steps (if you close your browser at an untimely moment, for example). Drupal will also display a button that says Log in. Click this button now to log in as the administrator.

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