I'm setting up http://anarchism.pageabode.com as a site to house the works of various anarchist writers (just my own content there so far).
It obviously makes sense that I'd want to be able to have a standard view page (ie not tracker) that shows just the writings of any one user and which preferably would be the default page when you click on that user name. From the research I've done on this so far it looks like this could probably be done via the Views module but I'm wondering if I'm perhaps missing a simpler solution?
Two other more minor questions I have are
a. Is it possible to have the author page described above show just 'front page' posts and to have a side column that shows just that authors blog (non front page) posts?
b. Is it possible to have a multi item taxonomy selection (ie a page that would show articles by author X of type analysis and subject history)?
I'm guessing the answers to some of these question may depend on v6 versions of modules - I've spent quite a bit of time looking for answers but I appreciate these are probably n00b questions so feel free to just post what modules I should be looking at to work out the answers for myself from there.
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take a look at the php page snippets and block snippets
for some of the views that you're after, you may be able to achieve this with php page snippets - and you may also want to take a look at the d6 content profile module as it will allow for you to think of a profile as a standard content node (searchable and so on)...
i think there are several ways to accomplish what you're after, and a whole bunch of assorted 'filter by content type' 'by author' and so on could get this done, and assorted block and page php snippets could present the simple findings...
views is very powerful, and in the end that type of query builder might prove to be easiest way to go provided you can get your arms around it all...
for multi item taxonomy, check out 'faceted search 'module - it may be a great tool for you, though it's not really ready for d6...
sort of answering one of my own questions
It doesn't include the author but otherwise http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_browser answers my need to be able to select from several taxonomy lists at the same time and present a page of articles that fit either any or all of these selections.