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Touring the administrative controls

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Touring the administrative controls

Now that we have Drupal installed, we are going to start digging pretty deeply into individual points in its interface. But first, let's get an overview of the region's map before we visit those individual villages of control. As I said in the video about the toolbar, you can get to just about every administrative screen through this black bar at the top. One thing you probably noticed when you clicked it is that the screen sort of freezes and puts the controls over what you are looking at. That's called the administrative overlay, and it's new Drupal 7. As you can see, our original site is still back here, even as we scroll through this overlay. There are a few features of things that you see in the overlay. First of all, over here you'll see what's called a breadcrumb trail. As we click further into the administrative interface, it gets longer and longer. If you ever get lost, you can sort of back out and see one level above. It's sort of like being in a file folder and looking…

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