Hi Everyone
Please can anyone advise me on the best solution for the following proposition:
We are a company that sells websites to a particular sector and we have decided to use Drupal as our framework. We like to offer our clients a range of themes to choose from.
The main issue is that all the clients use a common set of content for the majority of their pages. This is fundermental due to regulation of the sector we only want 1 set of content to enable us to keep it up to date. With all sites pulling this content in from the database their sites always have compliant content.
We previously dealt with this via our own proprietary system. Now that we are moving to Drupal can anyone suggest the best way to allow the clients to login to their theme and then select what pages they want to use from the library of common content and assign the content to a menu within that theme? The content needs to be saved in the database with all the formatting H1, H2, P, etc tags
Clients will be able to add in their own content but the common content they select to use must not be editable otherwise it will effect the control of the standard content.
Our server is has Plesk on it and we would like to use the Multi-site module to keep all the site up to date with security updates.
Also we would like to be able to manage which theme a client is using if possible from 1 source e.g. the multi-site module if that allows this.
It has been suggested to use Design Suite to give client more control of what elements they wish to use in the theme they choose.
Currently we have installed 'Domain Access' Module with 'Design Suite' but I think this is the wrong solution as 'Domain Module' is about supplying on sub-domains rather than themes on the clients own domain.
If anyone can help steer me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.
thanks
Anton
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If you mean 'display suite', then yes it allows layout changes via the user interface (as opposed to having to edit the theme files directly). Panels also allows this and has the added benefit of the panelizer module which allows very user friendly select of page layouts.
And I would recommend using the domain module (which is not limited to subdomains) for sharing content across sites.
If you do choose to use a multisite install (it's not a module but a method), then you could use the feeds module to schedule pushing content around and perhaps use the flag module to indicate which of the available content pages a particular site would want to publish.
And yet another option might be to share tables, but I don't recommend that for newbies.
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