These are the tools you will use to create and manage your content on the site.  These are terms and concepts; specific information including how to use these tools will be outlined later in this handbook.

Fields

A field is the smallest unit of information on your site. Examples of fields include a number, date or some text.  You will use Fields to enter your information; pay close attention to each fields help text as it will help explain how the field is handled.

Node/Entities

A node is the generic term for a piece of content on your web site. A node consists of several fields. Some examples of nodes:

• Pages in books
• A Basic Page i.e. Contact Us
• A Testimonial

Each node on your site is one of the Content Types, Content -> Add content (node/add), available on the site. A node is made up of several fields such as a Title, a creation date, an author (a user on the site), a Body (which will often use the Text Editor), and many other properties. Nodes can be published, unpublished, have revision information and often are organized by use of Taxonomies.

Taxonomy

Your site has a system for classifying content, which is known as Taxonomy, Structure -> Taxonomy (/admin/structure/taxonomy). The Blog content is using three different Taxonomies to orgaize the posts; these include the Blog Categories, Blog Terms, and Vessel. A Taxonomy Term will support a variety of Fields depending on their usage, and list all Content tagged with that Terms name. See Handbook > Creating, Editing & Managing Content > Taxonomy (admin/handbook/creating-editing-managing-content/taxonomy) to see more on how your site uses the Taxonomy.

Components

The building blocks of the content for the site are the Components. In Drupal terms these are Custom Blocks with fields and settings to create specific design and content. You can see a list of all available Component on the  Block Types page (/admin/structure/block/block-content/types). This list all the components available to build the content on the site. These Components are used in the Component Layout system to build out the pages. See the Component Layout System Handbook page on how that works. Note that not all Components (Blocks) listed are available in the Component Layout system; they are also used with other Components. For instance the Image Item, Text Item, and Numbers Item blocks are used only within the List Content Component. This Component is the one used to place the content on the page.