By silverwing on

I recently bought a new domain name that I will use as my main domain. So with the new name, I decided to try a new cms. (My current site is at www.landofmidnight.com and has a *nuke as the backend. Imagine that, a *nuke user switching! Betchya never heard that before!)

I've already installed Drupal and played around with it. The two words that come to mind when I think of Drupal are Nice and Complicated. Some of the jargon used is, shall we say, different from other systems. But complicated just means there is more of a learning curve, and that's something that just takes time to master.

So here I am, writing this for two reasons: 1) To see if Drupal is really what I need, and 2) to get clear in my mind what I want to do. So here goes....

Misguided Thoughts is my personal site. I'll be the only one creating content (aside from forums.) No other user gets blogs, article rights, submission rights, or hampster porn. I'll be doing the content. So, in other words, it's all about me.

The front page would be my journal/blog that others can comment on. (Like what I have now, but with comments) Being a(n aspiring) writer, I want to have sections (taxonomies?) for these "things": Reviews I write and Computer articles. I also want to have sections devoted to titles. So if I write a BooBoo the Killer Panda series, I can have a page dedicated to that. (It's my idea, don't steal it... I may use it ;0) I think I can do that by using pages or book. And I would have to redo the navigation to have each title listed. Or I can list each title, and on a master page, say mysite/booboo have links to other BooBoo pages... right?

So it seems that I want something like
Journal (main page)
Reviews
- books
- movies
-comics
-music
Computer
-whatever
-cms sytems whatever
BooBoo
-News
-Pictures
-Killer Panda Facts
Forums
Newsletter

And I would have to create new content Vocabulary.

Am I thinking the right way about this? Or did I lose you at 'recently'?

david - misguided

Comments

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TDobes commented

The taxonomy tree you laid out sounds reasonable. You could enable the "categories" block to allow navigation of the various sections.

As for the "titles", I'd use book.module if I were you, as it makes it easy to put pages in a hierarchal structure. If you strictly used book.module, you wouldn't necessarily have to categorize those posts into a taxonomy. (You could just use the taxonomy system for your "story" posts and not your "book" posts.)

So... yes. You'd create a new content vocabulary and set up a hierarchy like you wrote above within it. However, if I were you, I'd do a separate vocabulary for the book pages (if any taxo classification at all) and a definitely a separate vocabulary for the forum. The list of available "forums" is created from all terms within a vocabulary, not just a sub-section... so, unless you wanted your forum names to match the other terms exactly, you're probably better off creating a separate forum vocab.

Hmmm... hope that was helpful. This can be a bit confusing for someone who's not familiar with the way things work in Drupal, but, ultimately, it's a much more powerful system than the *nukes (at least, the *nukes I've worked with).

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silverwing commented

I discovered the articles module, and it seems more "logical" to me to sort pages that way. So I may use articles and books more than anything else. And since I don't have a lot in my taxonomy, I can play around with it without hurting anything.

And, yes, I'm still liking drupal! Working on themes right now. *sigh*

david
www.misguidedthoughts.com

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silverwing commented

I decided to use my old domain.

And the reason I chose Drupal is now online! I have an online serial up at my site, and thanks to the books module, it actually works and I don't have to do a lot of extra work formatting pages, or adding links here and there.

This really is a great system! Now I still need to work on that theme....

www.landofmidnight.com/antilles_jack - my online sci-fi serial
www.landofmidnight.com