How to Get Rid of Node/1 Drupal Edit Tutorial

Wow, I have a long way before getting this new drupal site configured.  I’ve worked with wordpress, joomla, topsites, pligg, and dating sites and drupal is proving to be different but not too difficult.  Here’s what I’ve accomplished thus far…

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I’m using the conch theme and need to make it look somewhat like the preview.  I was unhappy with link structure and finally figured how to change the node/1 from showing in the permalinks.  Here’s where you need to head to for the edit:

Home » Administer » Site building » URL aliases

Type node/1 for the existing system path. Then, type in your alternative. For example, I typed in “fansite” for the alternative.

Now my permalink show as…

http://seethesite.name/ludacris/fansite

Instead of…

http://seethesite.name/ludacris/node/1

The url path setting can be defined when you’re creating content as well.  But who really wants to alias the link structure manually for each and every post?  I ran into the PathAuto module the promises…

The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias.

I’m off to checkout the PathAuto and to see how to actually load a module.  I see other related modules that are recommended by drupal.  Any ideas on what works best?

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