Student Union

This collection of tutorials can get your student group started with a new website, help transition your group from the old to the new SU server, set up a group mailing list, and more.

If you need further help on your web or email accounts, you can check out the web/email FAQs, create a trouble ticket, or contact the webmaster.

Email Tutorials

Access your Student Group Email Account

Every student group is given a [group]@su.wustl.edu email address. Learn how to access and configure it.

Migrate Email between your Old and New SU Email Accounts

Mail on the old SU server (mail received before January 15, 2009), will be removed on October 1, 2009. This tutorial explains how to move your student group's old email to the new GMail servers.

Web Tutorials

Create a New Web Account

Set up a new account on the new Student Union server.

Getting Started with cPanel

This quickstart guide will help you get acquainted with basic cPanel web administration functionality.

Upload Files to your Web Server

Publish your website's files to the web server using SFTP or the cPanel File Manager.

Log onto your Web Account through SSH

A step-by-step guide on how to log onto your web account through SSH (on both Windows and OS X) for more advanced website and file management.

Quickly Set up a Drupal Site

Drupal is a content management system used to quickly create portals, blogs, and other websites; it comes preloaded with common website functionality such as a menu system, user management and authentication, content management, data collection, and much more. The SU Drupal install wizard is the quickest way to get started on a professional, secure site.

Trasfer Your Site from the Old to the New Server

Transfer your site and other files from the old SU server before it is taken down.

Drupal Tutorials

The Drupal Cookbook (for beginners)

Drupal is a powerful and flexible content management tool but it is not always simple. The dynamic and organic way in which Drupal has been developed means that expert programmers, coders, themers, and front-end users of Drupal will rarely be able to re-live the new user experience. However, they all belong to the Drupal community and between the community and the documentation on Drupal they are there to make the experience easier for whomever expresses an interest in learning.

Of particular interest would be the following tutorials at the bottom of the page:

• Getting Started
• Basic Configuration
• Adding Modules and Themes
• Creating Content
• Working with the Menu
• URL Aliases

Site Recipes

This collection of tutorials leads you step-by-step on how to shape Drupal to a certain types of sites, ranging anywhere from a blog to a school newspaper website.

Page and Story Content types

This page explains the difference between the Page and Story types found under the "Create Content" link of your Drupal installation.

Configuring Menus, Navigation and Blogroll for Newbies

This is another tutorial on configuring the Drupal menu system.

Access Control

If you are working with a multi-user site, this tutorial gives you a basic overview of how to let some get some functionality while blocking other users.

Code Snippets

If you are familiar with coding PHP and would like to customize your site even further, you can get started with these code snippets.