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I am considering using Drupal for a website, and I am wondering whether Drupal makes it possible to separate a website into sections, with different looks/content for all webpages/nodes in a section. Also, if it is possible, how much know-how of Drupal/PHP would be required. Let me explain...
By sections, I mean a group of pages that includes distinct navigational elements, content, or graphic banners from other groups of pages. (I realize "sections" may not be the right terminology here, but I haven't been able to figure out what is so far.) As a sort of stupid illustrative example, for a website called Pets, there might be sections for Dogs, Cats, Fish, Birds, and on and on. All webpages in the Dogs section (perhaps hundres of pages) would have: (a) the same graphic banner with a dog, (b) blocks of copy or links related to dogs. The same for the Cats section, etc.
In practice, I would want this to work as follows: Whenever I created a new webpage (node, I guess, in Drupal terminology), I would be able to decide what section it belonged to (maybe from a pull-down menu listing the "sections"), and the correct look/content would be applied automatically.
What module(s) would be most appropriate for doing this?
Thanks so much for any tips/guidance!
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Hi, yes you can. One way is
Hi, yes you can. One way is to use 'Blocks' and change their settings in Adminster>Menu to only display on certain pages. If there are specific modules for this to make life easier I am not aware of it, but would be glad to hear if this was the case as I am sure my clients will want to edit category specific links. I have recently been experimenting with Category module and especially like the sub-module packaged with it Category Menu
'Creates and manages a set of menu items that correspond to your site's category hierarchy.
Good luck !
common use
Set up categories, make the content type you wish mandatory to be in one of the categories. That gets you 'sections'
http://drupal.org/node/176839
as to theming... there are a number of ways to do it. There is a sections module, I think a taxonomy image module, you could just theme it based on what category your content is in... etc
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
yup. and look at drupal case studies too
read through the case studies, like the most recent popsci one - and also check out http://mydrupal.com/drupal_showcase_some_top_drupal_sites - drupal is very flexible for this.
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Well, I would have linked to the handbook
http://drupal.org/success-stories
Just as a side note, you do realize that Drupal is a trademarked name and you should seek permission to use it?
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
it"s not my site...
i don"t know who runs that site...