Editing Basic Site Information
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Editing Basic Site Information
with Joe Shindelar
This tutorial covers
how to edit basic site information
like the site name, email, and
time zone.
By the end of this tutorial,
you'll know how to change
basic site information
such as the Site name, the Slogan,
and the Default time zone.
Before you get started with
this tutorial, you'll want to make sure
you're familiar
with accessing and navigating
Drupal's administrative interface.
In the Manage administrative menu
click on Configuration
and then under System,
click on Basic site settings.
This takes you to the page
where you can change
the Site name, Slogan,
administrative email address,
or the default front page path.
Fill in the available fields as
appropriate for your site.
The Site name is used to
identify the site
and generally displayed
in the header
and the browser's title bar.
The Slogan is usually displayed
site-wide in the header.
The email address here is
used as
the From address in
automated email messages,
for example, registrations or
password resets.
After editing the fields,
you can click Save configuration
to see the changes applied
to the site.
In order to confirm that this worked,
I can navigate back to the
homepage and see
that indeed it has updated the
Site name and Slogan.
As another example,
let's change
the default regional settings.
In the Manage administrative menu,
click on Configuration,
then under Regional and language
click on the Regional settings.
From here, you can select
the appropriate country
from the Default country
select list
in the Locale section and set
which day
will be displayed as the First day
of the week on your site.
In the Time zones section
select the site-wide Default
time zone from the list,
and configure user specific
time zones.
The core software will do
its best to guess
this particular information when
it is first installed,
but you can change it at any time.
After editing the fields, click
Save configuration
to see the changes
applied to the site.
In this tutorial
we looked at editing basic
site configuration.
We navigated to the site
information settings form
and updated a couple of settings.
And then we navigated to
the regional settings form
and updated some additional
global settings.