What is a node?
All content in this website is stored and treated as nodes. Nodes are the generic descriptor for any postings such as blogs, stories, polls and forum topics. A node widget controlled by the administrator manages these content types and is one of the strengths of Drupal over other content management systems.
Treating all content as nodes allows the flexibility of creating new types of content, and enables new features or changes to be designed to apply to all content. Comments are not stored as separate nodes but are always associated with each node.
Nodes are created through the 'create content' command under the menu block.
