(Tutorial) How To Create a Dynamic Web 2.0 Brochure Site in an Hour

Tutorial : How To Create a Dynamic Web 2.0 Brochure Site in an Hour

What will you have after an hour?

You will have a dynamic, easily updatable, search engine optimised 'Web 2.0' website (including RSS feeds so that you get the automatic high search engine rank that blogs enjoy assuming you create compelling content constantly):

• An About Page
• A Contact Us Form
• A Products (or services page)
  
• A simple front page with two paragraphs about your company and contact information plus a sidebar with links on the right which link to headlines from your five latest news articles.
  
•  A news page with news articles about press releases, events and news. If you keep writing compelling news articles, you will have a high search engine rank.

Note that this is only one common configuration for a Bryght site. Bryght sites are flexible and can be set up in many ways. See Types of Sites for other common configurations.

Prerequisites
1. You need your Bryght site to have been created
2. You need a userid and password for an account with admin privileges

3. You need some content for your front page (a 2 paragraph sales and marketing intro with contact info), products page (same again this time with a paragraph for each product or service). You should have this anyway perhaps from your existing static brochureware site or your marketing collateral.

4. You must set your site name and optionally Slogan and Mission (administer»site configuration»site information "Name" and optionally "Slogan" and "Mission" fields »Save configuration). Note that some themes like the Drupal 5 default theme, Garland, don't display the slogan and/or mission.

5. Optionally, if you want to go live and have your site at your url e.g. www.yourdomain.com, you need to point your domain to Bryght servers. This is optional because you can use the temporary site URL until then.

6. Optionally, a jpeg, gif or PNG of your logo 

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Courtesy : Support.bryght.com