We're going to learn how to create a user account. Some sites choose to allow users to create an account that immediately becomes active with no review, some choose to require the account to stay inactive until an administrative user approves it, which is what we will emulate here, and some create all user accounts administratively and do not allow users to register.

Let's create an account for an editor, one of the roles we created. If you still have a page up with the tabs for List, Permissions, and Roles at the top, click List. Otherwise, you can either click People in the Admin menu, or navigate to admin/people. Here is how we create an account:

1. Click the + Add user button, which will bring you to the Add user page, admin/people/create.
2. For Email address, you can enter a real one if you have it, or a fake one (@example.com is a good domain to use for fake email addresses and URLs).
3. The Username can be anything. Our editor will be Edie Editor, so I'll make her username Edie.
4. Choose something you'll remember for a password. The user can change the password once logged in. To get a green bar (strong password) try Password123. Enter your choice again in the Confirm password field.
5. For Status, leave the setting at Active. If you ever want to create a user account in advance but not make it immediately active, you would select Blocked.
6. Under Roles, check the box for Editor to give this user that role.

7. We're going to leave Notify users of new account unchecked. Normally, you would check this so that an email would be sent to the new user, but we do not want an email sent in this case.
8. The Picture is nice when there will be something akin to blog articles, where the author has a photo, but we won't use one.

9. Will your content editors want to be contacted via the website? If so, leave the next check box for Personal contact form selected.
10. The Time zone selection assures that the user sees times displayed based on their time zone, rather than the time zone in which the web server is located.

Having addressed all the fields, click Create new account. You will stay on the Add user page, with a message similar to the following screenshot at the top:

When users are allowed to request an account by registering, there are typically two ways it can be handled, depending on your site configuration: the registration can result in an immediately active account, or the user account will be created as Blocked to Inactive, until it is approved.

To approve it, you would edit the account from the user list, change the status from Blocked to Active, and assign the user whichever roles are needed. The only role that will be preselected is Authenticated, just as when we created a user.