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Every piece of content we can create is a type of object Drupal calls a Node.
Key Terms:
Node: Any piece of individual content, such as a page, poll, article, forum topic, or a blog entry, stored on a Drupal website
URL's are named and numbered in the order that they are created.
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Right now if we click over to our about page.
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It's URL is
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localhost:8888/node/1.
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Or if you've made more content than that, you might end up with
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/node/3, or something along those lines.
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This is pretty much because every piece of content we can create,
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is a type of object Drupal calls a node.
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There are a lot of different content types for nodes, like announcements,
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blog posts, terms and conditions, or about pages.
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But every piece of content is a node.
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Different kinds of content share some common properties,
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because they are all nodes.
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For instance, they all have a title,
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an author, a creation date, and some body content.
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Not all of these properties need to be displayed though.
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For example, you wouldn't want to show the author on an about us page,
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because it's probably written by you, the developer.
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Later you'll learn how to create your own content types.
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Since the about page was the first node that we created,
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It was automatically assigned the URL, node/1,
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to be attached to the base URL, localhost:8888.
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Now what is our base URL?
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Oh, it's just our home based.
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If we go directly to local host 8888, it takes us to the front page, Home.
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But, if we type in the rest of the URL, and
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go to local host 8888/node/1.
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It takes us directly back to our About Us page.
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Next, let's give our about page a more friendly address, than node one.
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To change this, click over to the about page's edit tab, and
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scroll down to the tabs at the bottom of the page.
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Click on the URL path setting's tab.
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And type in the word about.
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Don't add slashes before or after the address in this field.
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They're added automatically.
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Click on Save, and we're back to our homepage.
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Now we can access our about page with the address,
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local host: 8888/about.
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