By markhh750 on

Hi,

I am new to Drupal, and am wondering how the different types of content like pages, stories or blogs are best used. Can you suggest the best ones for these sorts of examples:

1) Simple Journal or Diary writing like a holiday
2) For holding related information, like manuals of instructions
3) Items like film or music reviews
4) To do type items for me to remember

I would only rarely require other user input, maybe on a working project. I guess that the categories are key to classifying too. It just seems that there is a lot of choice.

Drupal looks to be a really useful system, but I think it needs good organisation of the material to make it work. Just writing Blogs wouldn't help me store and find the more static type of stuff. I also want to be able to post pages from other systems but havent worked out how to do it yet.

Thanks to all for any help.

Mark

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Comments

pkoura’s picture

pkoura commented

I would use CCK to create custom nodes / content types with a combination of the imagefield module so that you can include images. Or just use the Tiny module to use a WYSIWYG editor.

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gtaylor’s picture

gtaylor commented

There's more than one way to skin a cat. These are just ideas for you to use as a spring board for investigation. You'll need to decide on your own.

  1. For a journal, I would use content type of Blog, it's tightly coupled to the person which is nice.
  2. For related information, manuals and instructions, I'd use Books. But you may want to play with the themes a bit. I find the default UI a little clunky on the navigation.
  3. Films or music review --- You could go with a (blog AND category) or a new content type (cck or contento). If you go with blog AND category, it can again easily associated to a person which has some advantages.
  4. Ditto for to do's. But these would be public for others with node read access to see. It may require coding to keep them private.

Hope this helps.

US421’s picture

US421 commented

I agree, it is a personal thing. I tend to use story for anything headline or blog-like, page for something more stand alone, and blog for when as gtaylor says it makes sense to link it to a person, or if the blog will be different types of content from the rest of the site.

so,

1. For a journal, using blog would make it easy to keep posts in one spot; blog is set up to operate that way.

2. manuals, books sounds good.

3. Films or music review- why not page? Then you could have a link to your blog and not see the reviews mixed in. Unless that is what you want.

4. Story is still there for to-dos, if you want to set the permissions so the public can't see them.

This is assuming you don't want to create new content types with other modules, reviews and to-dos would be good candidates for this as they can be structured.

Welcome to Drupal, hope you have fun with it!