Search this website and other drupal sites (very unuseable)

Deprecated - Usability feedback · Drupal 6.x

the_djmaze - February 28, 2008 - 08:29

I'm building my first real website with Drupal and i need:

- Downloads section
- News section

I also need blocks with:

- latest news
- latest downloads

I've searched for eons on this website, but every time i search for "news module" the search results have nothing to do with it (other then a XML parser that fetches news from other website)
Searching for "downloads module" has no good results either.

How do you people search on a Drupal website where everything is a node so any search result is any node and not what you want?

With google i did find a few, actualy on one search phrase google return only 2 results!
But none of the google results was satisfying.

So how do you think a dumbass webuser (80% of all internet connected people) will find the right information?

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It's there....

gareth_w - February 28, 2008 - 08:39

...but not called what you think. Drupal is so flexible that most of these functions seem to be designed to be put together by the user in a few mouse clicks.

Look at Views. This should do everything you want it to.

Gareth

Or maybe even

gpk - February 28, 2008 - 11:20

Or maybe even http://drupal.org/project/get_content_type, but it may not be powerful enough to do the blocks for you.

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

Thanks all, i figured it

the_djmaze - February 28, 2008 - 13:56

Thanks all, i figured it out. Just wrote my own modules to accomplish what i need.

Just working with it for a few days and i do see loads of improvements that could be made inside the code and this website.
I will think about it if i want to join the club for this or stick with other OpenSource systems that i use and keep Drupal as a sidenote.

>i do see loads of

gpk - March 4, 2008 - 11:59

>i do see loads of improvements that could be made inside the code and this website
I'm sure your comments and contributions would be of great value to the wider Drupal community ... http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue, http://drop.cwgordon.com/.

Best,

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

I never had a problem

Krickey - March 1, 2008 - 17:37

I never had a problem searching Drupal.org or google for drupal modules. Language is key, if one particular term doesn't work, try a different one. You can't blame drupal for not knowing how you like to word things. Anyway, there's a linksDB module which could be good for downloads.

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