Sub-frontpages is it possible?

cBoy - February 10, 2008 - 17:56

Hi everyone!

I am new to Drupal. I was wondering if it is possible to have sub-frontpages in Drupal.

Here's an example of what I want to do:

Let's say I wanted to create a site dedicated to videogames, with sections like: Wii, Xbox, ps3. Each section would have different categories: news, articles, reviews, guides, etc. I want the frontpage to have the news, articles, reviews, guides from all the consoles, but each sub-frontpage to have content only from one console.

I made the same question in the Joomla forum, but because I've heard a lot of good things about Drupal. I would like to use it in my site.

I want to use Drupal 5.x. If that's important.
Also, if it is possible, I'd like to see some link references.

Thanks in advance,

Cristian

Yes, it is absolutely

jimi089 - February 10, 2008 - 18:32

Yes, it is absolutely possible. There are a number of ways to accomplish your task, but here's my basic take:

Utilize the Taxonomy system to categorize your content based on the console. When you submit content you'd select which console.

Leverage Views to display only relevant content based on taxonomy, and create queries which are displayed on those pages.

It should be pretty straightforward - this is exactly the kind of thing Drupal excels at.

Thank you for your answer,

cBoy - February 11, 2008 - 18:50

Thank you for your answer, jimi089. Loved when you said: "this is exactly the kind of thing Drupal excels at."

I suppose it could be done this way, tell me if I'm wrong

So, vocabularies could be used for consoles like: wii, xbox, ps3, right? Then, terms would be: news, articles, reviews, guides, is that correct?

For example, I create a page in the following url:
http://example.com/xbox/
How can I make the content inside the vocabulary "xbox" appear dynamically in the above page.

Also, is there a third level to categorise. For example: Vocabulary > Term > SOMETHING ELSE ?

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VeryMisunderstood - February 11, 2008 - 18:53

When you create a new term, Drupal assigns it a number. And you can call up all the items categorized under that term by calling for its number.
To see your term's number, go to the categories page, choose list terms for the category to which your term belongs, and now hover over your term's name in the list. You'll see the number.
Now, on the menus page (administer >> site building >> menus) you can create a menu item for your term. Select add item, and when you fill in the path field you add your term like this:
taxonomy/term/1

If the term "sonatas" is term 1, this would call for all the nodes of that category.

If the term "Bach" is term 2, this could call for only those sonatas written by Bach:

taxonomy/term/1,2

Or if Brahms is term 3 and this will call for everything that has to do with either Bach or Brahms:

taxonomy/term/2+3

the above taken from handbooks -> core modules -> taxonomy

for a more advanced type of listing page, investigate teh views.module and the plethora of documentation in the handbooks -> contributed modules -> views section

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Thank you so much,

cBoy - February 12, 2008 - 16:52

Thank you so much, VeryMisunderstood. I am understanding it a lot better now.

 
 

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