Overview

This opening chapter orients new users to the GSA website and the Drupal 11 platform. It explains what the CMS is, why it was chosen, and how its core building blocks (content types, media, taxonomy, and translations) work together. After reading this chapter, editors will understand the overall structure of the system before they touch any settings.

Audience

All staff: this is the foundation every editor must read first.

Learning Outcome

Understand the Drupal 11 architecture, know the difference between nodes, media, taxonomy and menus, and understand how English and Arabic content are managed.