Basic Drupal Configuration

After you have installed Drupal and created the admin account, you will see a menu on the left side of the screen:

Drupal installation - admin block

Click on the menu item that says "Administer". That will lead you the the Drupal admin screen.

You will probably see a warning message like this:

Drupal warning message on installation

Follow the "status report" link for more information, and you should see a screen something like this that contains information about your Drupal installation:

Drupal status report

Don't worry about cron right now, but if you have an error about your file system, then you should take care of it right away. Usually this means creating a directory called /files/ in the root of your Drupal installation and making sure that it is writable.

[more coming soon]