 add a new field at the bottom of the manage fields page for a content type you ll find this in order to add a new field to a content type you need to provide the following information label a humanreadable name for the field it will be used in input forms and on displayed content all characters are allowed including spaces accentuated or noneuropean characters field name a machinereadable name for the field it is used internally to identify the field and handle database storage when doing custom theming it is this identifier that you ll use to refer to that field important  the field name cannot be changed once the field has been created allowed characters az unaccentuated 09 and the underscore the length of the field name cannot exceed 32 characters including the field prefix that gets added automatically that is 26 free characters field type the type of data to be stored in that field important  the field type cannot be changed once the field has been created the available field types depend on the modules you have enabled on your site cck comes with 6 basic field types text integer float decimal node reference user reference additional modules can be downloaded to handle other field types such as dates files images look at the cck project page and the complete list of cckrelated modules  widget the form element that will be used to input data for this field on content forms text input select list etc each field type has its own list of available widgets when selecting a field type the list of widgets you can select is automatically updated  