By persondude2 on

Hi,
I'm launching a site that will host a variety of articles on different computer topics. I need a content management system that will let me easily categorize and format these articles. The categories need to be multiple levels deep, and users should be able to navigate through them and view articles in each category.

I know that all of this is possible with drupal, but it seems I'll need to spend a lot of time downloading modules and customizations to get it to look right.

So... my question is this: Should I use another CMS, or, if you think drupal is a good choice, what modules should I download to get my site up and running quickly.

Thanks in advance.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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keylope’s picture

keylope commented

Categories is already built into Drupal, so that isn't hard. It's the formatting and presentation that you might have to tweak to make it look the way that you want to that might take the longest to do. And depending on how you want to present the article lists, that could require other modules to do that for you. In general, the Views module allows you to create lists of content in either blocks or pages and are very dynamic. That is one that I would recommend. Also, the CCK module allows you to create custom fields in content types. So if you want to add an Article Publish Date (different from the created date) then that is easily done with CCK.

But those are the two that I would recommend that you start with.

Hope that helps!

tdimg’s picture

tdimg commented

Well, to categorise your content, all you need is the taxonomy module, really, and that is ready to use. There are lots of modules that enhance taxonomy, I'm using for example taxonomy context and taxonomy list and am just considering to use taxonomy image for a new project.

Pathauto and Views is always a good choice. So is the Content Construction Kit if you need more than the inbuilt fields, e.g. article images (for which you need the image and imagecache module, there is a handbook page about how to create thumbnails in teaser view with those modules).

Depending on whether you want to use a WYSIWYG editor to get your articles into the system, either TinyMCE or FCKeditor might be useful. IMCE is a nice addition if you want some more images to appear within the article.

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_context
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_list
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_image

http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
http://drupal.org/project/views
http://drupal.org/project/cck
http://drupal.org/project/image
http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
http://drupal.org/node/101748 = Handbook HOWTO: enable thumbnail on teaser, larger image on page using cck imagefield, imagecache and upload

http://drupal.org/project/tinymce
http://drupal.org/project/FCKeditor
http://drupal.org/project/imce

Joomla might be another alternative for you to get your project going.

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Actually your need is one of the best functionality of Drupal!

You will need to activate the standard taxonomy module. This is a core module and not an extra one.
There are a quite a few additional modules available to tweak the output and further customize the taxonomy functionality.

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Joep
CompuBase, websites and webdesign

panbanisha’s picture

panbanisha commented

The module taxonomy (Administration - Categories) included with drupal is enough. However you need to understand how it works and have a clear view of the hierarchy.

ewoud-1’s picture

ewoud-1 commented

How does Taxonomy work?
Can you tell me in brief?
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