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I am simply looking to create a static website with pages that can easilly be updated. I would like the navigation to automatically update itself, so that when a new page is added it appears on the navigation.

However I have not been able to figure out how to do this, I haven't found any of the guides any use - does anyone know of one, or could you tell me how to set it up?

Thanks in advance,
chickendippers.

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Rick Cogley commented

I think this is acheivable - you could just do blog posts and create a block that shows recent blog posts. Log in as admin, use admin modules to make sure your blog module is turned on, then use admin blocks to turn on "recent blog posts". The menu and blocks admin areas will allow you to do some things that will help you acheive what you want.

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Tokyo, Japan

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mcduarte2000 commented

The best solution for what you want is the "Book Module", just create book pages and show the book block somewhere on the page.

I use this solution on my Lisbon Guide.

The only thing I could not achieve yet was to open the book menu completly. Does anybody have any idea how to do that?

Miguel Duarte

Webmaster of: Lisbon Guide & Love Poems

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Thanks for the suggestion, your website it exactly the kind of thing I am aiming for.
However I am having a problem showing the book block. I have enabled it in the admin menu, but it just isn't showing up: http://www.kipling.me.uk/ariel I have created book pages which you can see here: http://kipling.me.uk/ariel/?q=node/view/3

Infact for some reason non the the navigation is showing up except for the user login block :S

Thanks,
chickendippers.

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mcduarte2000 commented

1st you have to enable "Book Navigation" in admin/block.
2nd you have to make your book the "Default front page" in admin/settings. In the field you should put the name of your main book node, that you want to be the homepage of your site.

Miguel Duarte

Webmaster of: Lisbon Guide & Love Poems

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sami_k commented

Create a basic Drupal installation and get the menu-on-the-fly module. Install the module, enabled it. Then whenever you create a page and need to add a menu item you can add the menu item through the page. The book idea above isn't really what you want.

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mcduarte2000 commented

It depends of what he exactly wants to do.

With menu-on-the-fly he will have more flexibility, thats for sure.

The great advantage of the book module, for a static website, is that the site ends being very structured, without any effort from your part, which I think is great. Besides that, I also quite like the option of printing the complete structure. For example, from the main page you can print the complete site (ex: printer-friendly version).

Also, you get a nice menu on the top, without also any effort from your part (ex: Lisbon Earthquake).

Miguel Duarte

Webmaster of: Lisbon Guide & Love Poems

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Thanks for all your feeback, I have now been able to get my head around Drupal :) I have created a guide to help non-technically minded people (such as myself) use Drupal.

Below is a step-by-step guide to creating a static website with Drupal:

1. Install Drupal,
2. Download the menu-on-the-fly module and extract to your computer (using WinRAR),
3. Create a directory in your "modules" directory called "menu_otf",
4. Upload everything in the .tar.gz file into the "menu_oft" directory,
5. Login as an admin on your Drupal installation,
6. Navigate to administer > modules and check the box next to "menu_otf". Click Save.
7. Navigate to administer > menus and click "add menu". This will create a title on your menu.
8. Navigate to administer > blocks and check the box next to the menu you just created. Click Save.
9. You may now create content by navigating to create content > page. Select the menu title you wish the link to that page to display under.
10. You are done, you've now added your first page and the link is automatically added.

To create a news post navigate to create content > story. Ensure "Promote to front page" is selected whilst ignoring the Menu Navigation optoin.

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tormu commented

We decided to use Drupal as the CMS for a few localization websites that our company provides content to, and basically started from the scratch..
I tried to find info myself, but failed - as you can see since I'm posting this :)

1. Ok I got a page written and got a menu which links to it - but since the page is "static", I don't want it to show the "submitted by <user> on <date>", how can I disable that?
2. After I get that disabled, how can I get it disabled only for certain pages, since we will have lots of news and articles, and those would also be "pages", if I understood it right.. So disabling the date and poster information for all the nodes with type page wouldn't be good :)

That's the start, I know/hope it's easy, but I couldn't find any info on how to do it :P

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Heine commented

Handbooks » Installation and configuration » Basic site configuration » Show/hide 'Submitted by' on posts. This setting is per node type, but you can easily use 'story' for articles / pages, unless there are other constraints.
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tormu commented

ok great, that does it, thanks!
How about that "home"-link at the start of the page, any way to get rid of that too? I mean that on the content-div there wouldn't be anything else than the content of the static page that I wrote?

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Heine commented

Not sure what you mean with that. Removing the breadcrumb isn't hard, but please open a new thread.
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