Hi all! I've been making websites in wordpress for about 2 years now and have been scared to climb the drupal learning curve but it may be time. My next project is developing a coupon site similar to this one (http://bit.ly/pLbkR6). I started to write it in wordpress, but I was feeling its limitations. Would Drupal be a good fit for this type of site?
If so, how would you recommend I get a quick start. For example, are there templates or modules that would be helpful?
I was thinking about starting with Drupal Commerce Kickstart. The site doesn't need real ecommerce features (not cart, no shipping, no money, etc.) but does need some type of product gallery tool (not just an image gallery - unless it is a really advanced one). Do you think Drupal Commerce would help or is it overkill? Can it easily produce a "product" gallery like the site above? Or is there a more pure product gallery type tool? Key features would be having a page that displays products based on categories/tags in multiple squares across the screen. Each square would have an image and text and links out that would go to a details page. And it should look pretty. That's basically it.
I've been doing something similar but less pretty at http://freetravelgenius.com using wordpress and leveraging it's Tablepress module for storing and presenting product database and jquery tabs to help categorize it. But now I want something where each row would be more like a large button / block and there is no easy way to do so in wordpress without either hardcoding the data or doing some database programming. I am also looking for an excuse to learn Drupal on the fly.
Thank you!
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I would suggest use only
I would suggest use only Drupal not the Drupal commerce.
Go through the drupal.org official documentation, it covers everything, i.e. theming, module development, etc.
-Imran
Thank you. I was hoping for
Thank you. I was hoping for some type of short cut. I would love to start using drupal but I also need to get v1 of the website done quickly. I know I can hack away at Wordpress and make it happen which I will probably need to do if I need to start from scratch with drupal. Any ideas on some themes or modules that could help kickstart the process?
Thanks!
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Dave
http://www.FreeTravelGenius.com
Start by looking at
Start by looking at http://drupal.org/project/distributions
I don't know if http://drupal.org/project/opendeals is close to what you are trying to do, but in anycase finding a distribution that, at least, has some of the basic features you are looking for will give you a head start, and there are lots of distributions to choose from.
Even if you decide not to build your site using a distribution, it still accelerates your learning curve because you get to see configurations that are necessary to get a module to do something specific and some distributions come with dummy data so you have a full fledged site to play with.
http://friendlymachine.net/posts/2013/how-learn-drupal-without-losing-yo...
The saying "There's a distro for that" is going to become standard in Drupal.
Hope that helps
JK