evaluation of Drupal
Hello to everybody,
I am interesting to a CMS in order to migrate my actual website. I read a lot of comments on the net about other products and finally I've found Drupal as a good candidate.
As is:
My website is a static site of almost 2000 pages. Most of them are in italian, some others in english and spanish.
The content is highly organized into hierarchies and there are two types of it:
- pages (or nodes as in Drupal) about articles that are static (they are the mayority) and always valid
- pages (or nodes as in Drupal) about events or news that someone writes and that have a death date
Then I have also a front page (that I call main page) where I put a list of pages (both articles and news).
For each I put the link, the title, a small photo and some introduction text of the article or the event.
This work is made manually because when a news deads I drop it from the main page.
As should be:
Reading Drupal docs, I guess that my articles shoud be pages and my news should be stories.
With Drupal I'd like that the composition of my main page (the front page) is handled automatically. So in someway I have to specify an interval date of validity for articles and stories. And the front page should show only those that are valid at the actual date.
Is it possible this behaviour ?
The Views
The Views (http://drupal.org/project/views) module would help with that. I think it's the easiest way to go.
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besides views (as mentioned above) you can use the scheduler module for publishing/unpublishing nodes http://drupal.org/project/scheduler
You can probably do everything in stories and set up a vocabulary with terms to help sort things out.
~silverwing
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more questions
I thank you for your answers.
I am thinking also about some other points.
In my website I have some banners placed in each page. These banners are fixed because I sell an entire group of pages to a customer.
For example I place banner#1 for all pages with this url www.example.com/stories/city
I am thinking to implement this grouping of pages with taxonomy. I define a category 'city' under 'stories' and associate all the pages to it. is it right ?
Then I saw several advertisement modules available but what I need is one that it allows me to specify a banner to a particular category. do you know someone ?
Finally at the moment I haven't idea on how to synchronize the drupal site with the laptop of my collaborators. At the moment, because my website is composed by all static HTML pages, I version it using CVS.
In this way everyone can easily update a local version of the website on his laptop in order to show the site to a customer also when the internet connection isn't available.
If I move to Drupal how can I make a similar thing ? I imagine to backup the database and to restore it but it seems too difficult if the collaborator hasn't technical skills...