Drupal Gardens Tour

Lets have a look inside Drupal Gardens:

• Drupal is very powerful, and Drupal Gardens is the first site offering the power of Drupal without the complexity of installing it on your own server.
• Your organization may be rolling out Drupal across their own web sites, which might make it it worth your consideration.

An overview of drupal garden’s features

• The Dashboard/Content (status and type)
• Structure
1. Blocks, menus, taxonomy
2. Simple Views
3. Content Types
4. Taxonomy
• Appearance
1. Theme
2. Brand
3. Layout
4. Styles
5. Advanced Features
6. CSS
• People (Users)
1. Manage users
2. Permissions
3. Roles
• Modules
• Configuration
• Reports

And here is the description of all the features used in Drupal Gardens

• Dashboard : click on this to have a quick look at the basics of how your site is being used : who's online, who has last registred, which content was most recently added, and similar stuff.
• Content : to see a list of all the content items that have been created for your site : basic page, blog entries, FAQ items, galleries, news items, polls and webforms.  All these can be sorted depending on status : published, not published, promoted, not promoted, sticky or not sticky.
• Structure : to manage your settings related to blocks, content form, content types, mailing lists, menus (4 different ones), simple views, and taxonomy.
• Appearance : themes, brand, lay-out, styles and advanced settings (CSS).  Basically this is to determine fonts, colors, links, backgrounds, logo, and borders & spacing (see screenshot below).
• People : for a summary (list) of all the registered users of your site.  With a filter to determine role (editor, administrator...), permission level (to which modules does that user have access) and status (active or blocked).
• Modules : list of all the modules that are available for use, including options to edit any of these.
• Configuration : related to setting content authoring, system information, user interface, media, development & maintenance, web services, search & metadata, regional and language settings.
• Reports : to find out how your site is performing : status report, log messages, field list, mollom statistics (this is a built-in anti-spam function), top search phrases.