Types of Content

A page is a whole Web page. It's best for static content.

A story is a generally short news item or feature. You can create a story and have it post to a specific page (or pages) using the taxonomy feature. For example if you have an event at a specific branch for Seniors you could have the event post on both the branch events page and the Seniors page.

A blog entry is similar to a story but is attached to a user. If you wish to have several different blogs you would create different user identities for yourself and log in under each to submit a blog entry.

Books have additional navigation elements at the bottom of each page for moving through the text, the previous, up, and next links. Users can select the printer friendly version link at the bottom of the page to generate a printer friendly version of the page and all of its subsections.

A newsletter is a publication that has 'issues' to be sent to subscribed e-mail addresses.

A poll is a simple multiple-choice questionnaire, which displays the cumulative results of the answers to the poll.

The forum module lets you create threaded discussion forums for a particular topic on.

An event adds a new event to the events calendar. This can include recurring events, and signups.

Blogs

The blog module allows registered users to maintain an online weblog (commonly known as a blog), often referred to as an online journal or diary.
Blogs are created the same way as stories.
If you wish you may allow your readers to comment on your posts.
Readers may also subscribe to RSS feeds of your blog.
You can display links to the most recent blog entries on your menu.

Books

The book content type is suited for creating structured, multi-page hypertexts such as site resource guides, manuals, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). It permits a document to have chapters, sections, subsections, etc. A book may be collaborative, but doesn't have to be. Authors with suitable permissions can add or edit pages in a book, and can arrange and re-order pages within the existing document.

Books have additional navigation elements at the bottom of each page for moving through the text, the previous, up, and next links. The previous and next links will be printed as the titles of the previous and next nodes in the book. Additional navigation may be provided by enabling the book navigation block.

Users can select the printer-friendly version link visible at the bottom of a book page to generate a printer-friendly display of the page and all of its subsections.

Administrators can view a book outline, from which is it possible to change the titles of sections, and their weight (thus reordering sections). From this outline, it is also possible to edit and/or delete book pages. Many content types besides pages (for example, blog entries, stories, and polls) can be added to a book by choosing the outline tab when viewing the post.

You can:

create new book pages: create content >> book page
administer individual books (choose a book from list): administer >> books

Events

Click on Create Content
Click on Event
All information below this point is the same for creating any other content.
Select Start date and End date. If the event runs all day, check the box for All day.
If the event repeats, click on Repeat
Select the Repeat type, Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly
Select the End Settings. Whether it ends on a certain date, or after so many times.
If the repeating event has exceptions (you're closed on Sundays), click on Exceptions
This allows you to exclude specific dates.
Once that's finished, fill in the Title, Category, Body, Menu, etc.
Near the bottom, there is a link for Signup settings
If you'd like to allow signups, fill in the appropriate information and click on Submit when finished.

Forums

To create a forum go to administer >>forums
Select the Add Container tab.

A container holds forums.
Think of it as a subject heading for your forums.

Enter the Container name.
Select whether it will at the top level of your forum or live within another container.
You can now create your forums.

A forum holds threaded discussions.

Select within which container or forum your new forum will live.
To create a new Forum Topic (threaded discussion) in an existing forum.

Select Forum Topic from the Create Content Menu.
Select which Forum the Topic will be under.

The newsletter module allows registered users to maintain an online newsletter that users can subscribe to. Users can subscribe to newsletters using their email address, or by subsribing to it's RSS feed.

To create a newsletter issue:

Click Create content >> Newsletter issue
Fill in the newsletter issue Title
Choose the appropriate Newsletter: from the dropdown
Fill in the message of the newsletter. (this can be pasted from word, or whatever the newsletter is typically done in)
Fill in Newsletter sending options
Make sure Send newsletter is selected if you'd like to notify all subscribers of new issue
When finished, click Preview or Submit

Polls