Hello all,
I have just recently started using drupal, many hours over the past 3 days reading about it and fiddling around with it. What I am basically working on is setting up a online newspaper for my 4th grade students. I chose drupal as I want to be able to let students comment on others articles and like the flexibility of drupal with using other forms of media. Also the ability to restrict access and/or contributing is important. I am hoping to have a site with an opening page set up with most recent articles for 5 or 6 categories (whats going on in math, creative writing, art, social studies...) When one clicks on one of those articles it will take one to a more blog looking page which has that most recent article and a list of others of the same category, basically something similar to this http://cornellsun.com/
I have installed cck, panels 2, and views. What I am getting stuck on is how to make a front page with 5 or 6 panels which then only have articles of that category in them. What I have tried doing is setting up categories by creating a category called class news and then adding the terms math and english. I then assume I need to create a view that somehow restricts what it shows to just posts with one of the terms and then toss it in one of the panels on the front page. I seem to be unable to get this to work though, and all posts with all terms end up showing up in the panel every time.
I then tried installing panels taxonomy, and either I am misreading how to use it, but I use it and just seem to get an empty panel. I know the numbers of my terms and can open those links, (ie http://&*(&*.com/drupal-5/taxonomy/term/3) but am not sure how to put that into a panel.
I have tried searching and looking through past tutorials and guides and am assuming that this is a pretty common request, but can't seem to find a tutorial or guide, and as such I am asking if anyone could help me out or point me towards a guide that assists with what I am looking for. Thanks in advance for any assistance!
aaron
