Need help?

If you need help with involved updates or have any questions, the online communications team is happy to assist:

Logging in to Drupal

1. Go to your site’s home page, append /login to the url (ex: engr.washington.edu/login).
2. Click the NetID button. This will take you to the NetID login page.
3. Enter your information and log in.
4. If you have not previously logged in:
   • Send a message to the appropriate webhelp email and the web team will provide you with access to Drupal.
   • Once you have access, you should be able to see a Manage bar at the top of your screen and, when you navigate to pages you can edit, tabs at the top of page content.

Editing basic pages

Read First! Before making any changes to pages, please review our Design System and Accessibility and usability page to get acquainted with our best practices.

1. After logging in, navigate to the page you wish to edit.
2. Hover over the body area of the webpage. A “pencil” icon will appear.

3. Select Quick Edit from within the dropdown.

   
4. Click within the page where edits are needed and edit using the WYSIWYG content editor that pops up.
5. When the changes have been completed, click the “Save” button. Your changes will be published immediately.

Advanced features for site admins

The Online Communications team maintains documentation that might be helpful for site admins who manage department sites outside of our support structure.

Documentation includes:

• Updating other types of content (announcements, news, etc)
• Ordering content
• Creating and maintaining menus and blocks
• Best practices for images
• Creating newsletter archives (if applicable)
• Calendar support
• Creating webforms using Drupal

Creating new pages

Although your Drupal permissions may allow you to create new pages, please work with the CoE web content specialists to have new pages created on the websites we maintain.

To have a new page created, send a message to the appropriate webhelp email and request a new page be created. You can share a Google Doc with the finalized content you would like to be included. A web specialist may reach back out with questions and suggestions or look to set up a meeting to discuss goals, structure, etc.

When you are requesting the page, please tell us the following:

• The purpose of the page and who you expect/want to use it
• Content in a shared Google Doc
• Suggested location of the page on the website (ex: under the Students menu or under the Research Areas menu item)
• Any preference for the url

About our theme

The Computing Services development team created a custom theme based on the UW Boundless design and is currently in the process of launching our Drupal 9 theme. The College has a slightly different theme from the departments.