OK, first off - I've gotten myself into a mess by agreeing to take on this project and not knowing a thing about Drupal. I'm afraid you are going to be hearing from me alot. I've been reading the documentation and even bought the Drupal 5 Themes book, but I'm having trouble relating Drupal terminology with what I want to do.... so here goes - any help/hints are appreciated.
How do I accomplish these items:
1) Menu options that go directly to a page that I have named. For example: "About Us" - link directly to a page named about.htm. - not node names.
2) Allow users with the right permissions to modify the about.htm page.
3) Two different type logins - one is for admin and modifying pages - the other is a "members area" where only certain pages can be viewed (not modified).
My template has 3 main regions - static-region, content and sidebar-right.
How do I accomplish this items:
1) When the "About Us" link is clicked, display the about us text in the static-region.
I know this is a lot to throw out there in one post. I really appreciate any help you can give. Thanks!!!!
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Do you have clean URLs
Do you have clean URLs enabled?
If so, you can re-name all of your "nodes" with URL aliases (using the core PATH module). This will allow you to create a "about" name for your node/1 (for example). Drupal does not create HTML pages so you can't get an .html or .htm extension. However you can rename URLs with aliases.
To do this you need to have clean URLs enabled first.
Next ... you need to make sure you have the PATH module enabled.
Please check that both of these items are enabled and working and then let me know and I'll walk you through re-naming the pages.
Clean URLs is enabled, but I
Clean URLs is enabled, but I cannot find anything that confirms that the PATH module is enabled or disabled. Where do I find that?
Administer > Modules Look
Administer > Modules
Look for PATH module in your list. Enable it.
Both are enabled and I've
Both are enabled and I've been playing around with adding pages and giving them the name I want. Now - how do I make the contents of the "page" display in a specific area on my site? Let's say I have 3 columns and when I choose "About Us", I want the text for about us to show in the left column. I am tweaking my own theme, so I'm having trouble determining what "region" that would be called.
If you are true new to Drupal, try the following doc pages
There are many helpful doc pages on these topics, although you are always welcome to ask questions too.
"Basic Content Management": http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/basic
"Create a new menu": http://drupal.org/node/176836
This one should help you get that menu link to "about.html"
"Alias content": http://drupal.org/node/176837
This is more focused on issue of allowing other users to name a url like: yourdruopal.org/about, but it will answer some of your questions too.
If you're the book buying type, Apress has the better ones, IMO.
Write back with any questions. Good luck!