All Drupal instructions – Index page

The personnel of Aalto University updates the site.

This guide is a portal to instructional content for new editors at aalto.fi.

New at Drupal and having trouble designing a good-looking page? Look no further! Here are some best practices for creating content at aalto.fi.

Get to know the aalto.fi components for creating versatility and visuality when delivering your content.

Get to know the aalto.fi components for creating versatility and visuality when delivering your content.

Learn about the components that are exclusive for hub landing pages. Learn also about which components that can only be used for select hubs.

There are a few different ways to display actual text at aalto.fi. Learn the difference between a quote and a highlight.

There are several ways to display images and media at aalto.fi. Learn more about the media slider, gallery and video component.

Learn about media placements and default and adaptive settings.

Highlight essential figures to showcase degree structure or rankings, for example. Infographics component allows you to draw the attention to meaningful numeric information. With a coloured background and linking possibility the component is versatile and visually pleasing.

Dive into the specifics of the Attachments component.

Learn how to highlight, for example, your school's social media channels.

Help users find information on your page by adding a table of contents. Anchor links can be used to link to the right place on any page at aalto.fi.

Here, you will find a short description of and a link to the different liftup components available to you at aalto.fi. With them, you can visualise and highlight the versatile content on the site.

The component offers you four display modes: small, mini liftup, medium, and accordion. Why not try them out!

Single liftup is a great way to highlight an important aalto.fi source of information. Learn how!

This component helps you create newsfeeds and list upcoming events.

Links to external content can be made to fit in visually with the rest of your page using external liftups. Here is how!

These components are good and practical tools to show contact details for a department, service unit, or members in a project. The order of the contact details can be random, manually or alphabetically organised.

When creating content at aalto.fi or anywhere else online, it’s often useful to link to other webpages. However, there are a few things to consider when adding links at aalto.fi.

Instructions on how to translate your content.

An article page can be used to present any type of information or content. The topic can be, for example, collaboration options, a certain research area or architecture in Otaniemi. Here's how to do that.

Event pages offer a set of functionalities to help you address all the necessary information to users.

Easy steps on how to create a news article on aalto.fi.

Instructions on how to create a new research group page and add research output.

Service pages provide important information to the personnel at Aalto University. Learn how to create and edit a service page!

An example of the default structure and content of the service page

Service index page lists service articles on specific topics.

Easy steps on how you can create a location page at aalto.fi.

Here we describe how to create content using the content type Reusable content and how to add that to your page as a component. The use of this content type is restricted only to specific editors in the learning services.

On this instruction we describe how you can create and edit the content type "programme". This content type is restricted only for Learning services.

Aalto.fi tutorials on one page. Learn, e.g. how to create an article, event, how to utilise tagging, and what are liftups.

This page will help you get to know the aalto.fi platform and its features.

An article page can be used to present any type of information or content. The topic can be, for example, collaboration options, a certain research area or architecture in Otaniemi. Here's how to do that.

Webpages can be tagged through a number of metadata fields. Each metadata field has a purpose, providing structure to the page (Content home) and information to search filters and feeds (Primary/Secondary tags, Relates to and Category).

Event pages offer a set of functionalities to help you address all the necessary information to users.

Here, you will find a short description of and a link to the different liftup components available to you at aalto.fi. With them, you can visualise and highlight the versatile content on the site.

On this page you will find more information on the personnel profiles used at the aalto.fi website.

Dive into the specifics of the Attachments component.

Uploading images and adding alternative (ALT) text for accessibility. Changing focal point will effect the way the image is cropped.

Do you want to reuse a page you have created before as a template for a new one? Read on!

Boost your webpages with search engine optimisation (SEO). Read on!

This article describes how you can filter aalto.fi content based on the author, editor, and content owner.

The tool automatically scans your pages, and seeks for improvements, such as broken links and misspellings, which you can then correct. Read on!

Communications Services monitor the visitor traffic on the Aalto web services with Google Analytics. Aalto University's general Google Analytics account is linked with the www.aalto.fi site and automatically includes all the content on www.aalto.fi.

Brush up on your news writing in English to catch the readers’ attention.

Learn how to write a must-read interview with Aalto personnel.

Utilise tips and write an interesting story about a new agreement or donation

How to write and edit English-language press releases and news.