drupal core content types 6.14
drupal administration > content management > content types
Drupal comes with quite a few built in content types:
Enabled by default:
- page
- story
Enable optionally from core:
- blog
- book
- forum
You manage and create new content types in Administer › Content management › Content types. There you can adjust their settings, like the defaults for publishing content, availability of comments, and so on. If you are using more than one language, you can set language (translation) related behavior here. Note that you can also change the internal admin names and descriptions of content types - but in order to keep things simple, leave this as is if you have no real need to change it.
Sometimes its not easy to choose which content type is best for a particular type of content.
Sometimes the obvious choice is not the right choice, so it's good to check first what is what.
For example, when starting (just) your own blog, don't necessarily use the blog module! The blog module's main target is for multi-user blogs: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/mistakes-made-when-using-drupal-personal-blog. Default links will invite users to start their own blog. I already made this mistake, and I'm not yet quite sure how to go about undoing that - (each blog content is in simple "node" form, so it should somehow be possble).