Inside Drupal

Overview of :

1. Content

• What is a content
• Create new content
• Edit existing contents
• Comments

2. Structure

• Content types
• Comment types
• Views
• Block layout
• Display Modes
• Menus
• Contacts form
• Taxonomy

3. Appearance

Here you can manage your themes and site appearance.

4. Extend

This section will provide you with access to all of your third party modules that are installed on your Drupal 8 website. This is also the place where you install new modules.

5. Configuration

The main site configuration area of Drupal where you can set different global site rules such as site name, title, meta tags etc. Basically all-settings related stuff and under-the-hood things Drupal 8 is at this place. Use it great caution - this globally affects (most times positively, though) your Drupal 8 website.

6. People

Here you can manage your Drupal 8 website users' existing accounts, as well as modify their type and access level. A robust permissions system provided by Drupal 8 allows you to modify almost each and every aspect of any given account. This is the place where you can also manually create new accounts, without having them to register trough your Drupal 8 website's frontend.

7. Reports

This section contains the main error log page, it is the place where you will be notified for updates, errors or anything important regarding your Drupal 8 website. Trough this section you can monitor various aspects of your Drupal 8 website's operations.

8. Help

This section contains helpful information about Drupal 8 and all of it’s features. It is highly recommended for new users tat want to progress faster with Drupal. It does no harm to experienced with Drupal 8 users to take a look - the documentation section of Drupal is growing daily and there are always new things, tricks and tools to learn for.

You are now familiar with the administrator dashboard and you are ready to get started creating your website and putting some content into it.