Introduction to content modeling¶

Content modeling is all about organizing your website's content so it works smoothly for your audience and your team. A solid content model keeps your site user-friendly, whether you're working with 10 pages or 10,000.

Here's what it involves:

1. Understanding your site's goals and your audience's needs:
   Start by defining what your website needs to achieve. Consider your audience, your organization's requirements, and how the content will be managed. Think about things like how content editors will update the site and what kind of experience you want visitors to have.

2. Identifying types of content your site needs:
   Break down the different kinds of information you'll be working with. These might include:

   • Content types, e.g., articles, events, or products
   • Media, e.g., images, videos, or audio
   • Taxonomy, or categories for grouping and organizing content
   • User roles and permissions, to determine what kinds of tasks user should have access to

3. Defining the details (fields):
   For each type of content, decide what specific details you'll need to store. For example:

   • An article might need a title, body text, and an image.
   • Fields can be simple (like plain text) or more structured (like selecting from a dropdown list).

4. Connecting content (references or relationships): Content types and taxonomies often are connected by a reference to reflect how they relate. For example:

   • A wine tour (content type) might belong to a region (taxonomy term).
   • A blog post could be written by an author (user) and related to a wine tour (content type).

The choices you make while developing your content model will inform and influence how you'll use many of Drupal CMS's features.