User's guide

Welcome! This User's Guide describes how to get started with our Web Site. The guide covers basic topics such as registering for an account, logging in, changing your account settings, and creating content.

You also might want to check out Common problems and Solutions if you have been having trouble with our site.

IWW.org runs on a content management system. Its goal is to help users compose and present web-site content such as articles, photos, and other content types. Iww.org is a "dynamic" system - rather than forcing users to specify a fixed, pre-declared arrangement of content, IWW.org takes care of the details of how information is arranged and presented, and lets users focus on the actual content to be displayed.

Most of the content on this site - the text of this page, for example - is stored in a database. Text and images are submitted by filling in forms via a web-browser. When visitors view a page, the relevant bits of content are extracted from the database and presented in a template. This makes it easy to quickly add or change content, without requiring knowledge of HTML or other web-technologies on the part of the person providing the content.

If you are an IWW member, you can contribute or edit content. Fortunately, IWW.org  is designed to make this relatively easy. Very little technical knowledge is assumed. Though details may vary with a site's configuration, the basic process involves these steps:

• register with the site
• log in by typing the user name and password supplied you in the registration step, and
• create content (e.g., articles, stories) into forms.

This user guide will explain these steps and familiarize you with the basic information you need to use Drupal successfully.

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