I work for a college news site and we are currently switching over to a new drupal site. We are building it over the summer. I was wondering what the best solution for archiving old stories would be for this? I was looking into using views but I was not exactly sure what that does. Could I just have a search engine in the site and type in an author or a key word and an old story would come up if using views as an archive solution? I understand that a block would appear for the archive by each month and clicking on a month would list all the stories published then correct? But what if a user did not know what month a story was published in, how would they find the article? I don't know if I am just completely lost on this, but any help would be appreciated thank you.
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Archive (http://drupal.org/project/archive). Week (http://drupal.org/project/week). Taxonomy. Views. A CCK type called 'issue'. There are lots of options, depends on exactly how you want to present this archive--by month, by issue, by week? What is the purpose of the archive? When people are looking for a particular story they usually search if they don't know where it is. Views has no bearing on what the search will find. You are correct, you could set up Views to create a block that would display months and then when you click on that month all the content created that month would be displayed. Hope this helps.
yes it does thank you for
yes it does thank you for your advice! I'm still learning with drupal haha