For all those reading this tutorial

A group of Drupal developers are working on a way to automate at least some of the tasks here, and I've had an epiphany that may, within the next week or so, at least make the process less tedious. I still recommend going through this tutorial, though, to understand the nuts and bolts of what goes on behind the scenes, as a learning exercise on working with these modules, and because hey--Why wait a week or two when you can get things going now, eh?

What you need to build a Drupal 6.x webcomic site

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Again, remember that this is a tutorial on how to turn a working Drupal site into a webcomic site. You should already know how to do things like install modules, etc. Still, I'll give you a hint here--contrib mods do not go into yoursite/modules. They go into yoursite/sites/all/modules.

Obviously, you will need Drupal

And here are the contrib mods you will need:

Content Construction Kit (CCK)

FileField

ImageField

FileField Paths

Token

Scheduler

Views

Custom Pagers Use the version attached to this page, since as of this writing there is something wrong with the official release.

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The below are not technically required, but I promise they will make your life easier.

Administration menu

Admin menu dropdown

Advanced help

Admin Role

Put all of these in sites/all/modules directory in your drupal directory and extract them, then go to your admin/modules page. Read both the online documentation and any readme files that come with them.

Enable the following:

Under CCK
Content
Filefield
Filefield Paths
Imagefield
Options Widgets
Text

Under Other
Advanced Help
Custom Pagers
Scheduler
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Token

Under Views
Views
Views UI

(If you installed Admin Menu, Admin menu dropdown, and Admin role, enable those, too.)

Although the defaults may be okay with most of these, you should at least look at the configuration pages at the admin by module page. In particular, you may want to adjust the settings for admin menu so that it is shown by default and stays at the top of the page when you scroll down, and you will definitely want to configure the "admin role" module.

Again--and I cannot stress this enough--RTFM.

There is a second file attached below (in addition to the Custom Pager module). This is a visual aid so that you can see which sub-modules to enable under each module you've just installed.

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