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Improving administration skills - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Improving administration skills
This video is really a catch-all of tricks that I picked up from administering Drupal since version 5. It's by no means exhaustive and it reflects my own personal way of doing things. First, let's talk about how the public sees your site, the so-called user experience. Now I have said before that you should browse the site as users of all different roles, especially as an anonymous user, and here I am looking at the site as an anonymous user by switching to a different browser. But along the same lines, sit some friends down in front of your site and ask them to look around and then watch what they do. Things that seemed obvious to you might be completely invisible to them. For example, if I were to sit somebody else down in front of my own site here, they might say, well what is this site about? Why are there no graphics here? What exactly does this mean down here, Feed aggregator? It's just as important to remove information that doesn't contribute to your site as to add it and…
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