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Published Friday December 5, 2008 at 4:57 am
By Dustin Boston

Save Time With These Downloadable Drupal Client Guides

So you just finished that Drupal-powered site for your client. The problem is they don’t know how to use it. Avoid explaining the same simple tasks repeatedly with these simple, printable client guides.

The first guide will walk your client through the process of logging in. The second guide is a gentle introduction to managing content with Drupal.

We’ve made a few a few assumptions in order to keep these as simple as possible for even the most computer-illiterate user.

  • Clean URLs is enabled
  • User has the ability to add, edit, and delete a Story
  • Defaults have been set for the Story content type
  • The administration menu is enabled and visible

If you have created custom content types, or would prefer your client to use the Page content type, simply edit the Word document provided to suit your needs. If you have a basic site then you can probably just use the PDF versions.

Guide 1 Downloads

Guide 2 Downloads

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  1. By Fredric posted on December 5, 2008 at 11:44 am
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    Great article.

    So glad you guys are covering Drupal. Keep them coming!

    I’m sure you guys are straight, but if you ever need any programming or custom module help (or articles), check us out!

  2. By Jon posted on December 5, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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    If you’re on a Mac, check out ScreenSteps [http://www.screensteps.com/] - I’ve lost count of the number of hours this saves me when it comes to putting together an Admin Guide at the end of a project!

  3. By Schoonzie posted on December 6, 2008 at 1:30 am
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    Great stuff. I have written a few of these in the past for older versions of Drupal but I haven’t bothered to update them to Drupal 6. These are a great start for when I get around to writing it (or when a client bugs me for something).

    Thanks!

  4. By Farez posted on December 8, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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    Great stuff Dustin. I think it would be good to start this as a project on Drupal or a wiki so that others can add to it.

    Good work!

    Farez

  5. By William Notowidagdo posted on December 9, 2008 at 6:32 am
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    Thank you for sharing. Surely I’ll check it out soon.

  6. By Dustin Boston posted on December 11, 2008 at 4:10 am
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    @Farez - I like how you think (but we’ll have to run it through the boss man)!

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