What does Drupal adoption mean for UCAR content contributors?
A. Drupal makes life easier for content contributors in some ways. Since content is created and maintained via web forms, all you need is a web browser. No need to install, configure and learn a tool like Dreamweaver for writing HTML. Drupal includes a JavaScript-based editor called TinyMCE that provides an editing toolbar and writes HTML for you. If you need to, you can edit the HTML source directory via a toolbar button. Drupal automatically puts your content into a standard page template, so you don’t need to worry about adding a header, footer, and navigation to every page. However, there are some tradeoffs. TinyMCE is not as powerful an editor as Dreamweaver. You can insert images and apply HTML elements and styles, but you will not have the level of control over page layout you had with a dedicated HTML editor. The developer of your Drupal site maintains that control over page layout and formatting style. Drupal content contributors need to collaborate with the developer of their
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