I'm trying to pick my CMS. I've worked with Wordpress in the past, but am finding it can't quite do what I want. I have downloaded drupal and installed and have been poking around and reading some of the handbook, but it is less intuitive than Wordpress (to me a least).

So, my question before I get too deep is in it is whether I can build a single-user site with the following attributes using drupal (6.x):

homepage (shows some relatively static info, latest blog post titles, other things)
blog:
blog homepage should be on domain.com/blog
blog categories accessible from domain.com/blog/category/categoryname
blog archive index accessible from domain.com/blog/archives
other pages as needed on domain.com/pagename

and, very important for me, the ability to have some non-drupal content accessible from urls like domain.com/directoryname, where directoryname is the name of a directory of static non-drupal content i already have and want/need to leave as is.

Is this possible with drupal?

If so, any suggestions for places to start would be appreciated. I found a tutorial on building a single-user blog site, but it appears to be for an old version of drupal.

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Anonymous’s picture

Hi,

Take a look at my site: http://www.silverjaguar.com/

So yes, it is definitely possible with Drupal 6. You probably want to download a few modules though:

Good luck with your website! Feel free to contact me if you have any querstions.