Whisky pages - where to start?
I am still very new to drupal, have been trying it on a very small scale for a few months. I have limited PHP skill - some css & html.
I have an idea for a section on my website, and I'd like some experienced advice on where to start. I'm not asking for someone to give me step by step at this point, just a push in the right direction so that I can read more and ask questions as I get stuck. I want to know whether I should use a story, a wiki, or try to develop custom nodes and a module.
I want to do a section on single malt whiskies from scotland. I started out by doing static html pages, but I'm sure Drupal can give me exactly what I want in a much cooler way.
I want a list of the whiskies in my collection with a brief description of the distillery, a description of the whisky itself, a picture or two, and one set of tasting notes, and any awards won. (front page of the section)
The summary from the front page should link through to a full description of the distillery, history, pictures, numerous reviews, numerous tasting notes. I imagine a tick box, or taxonomy term will determine which review and tasting notes will make it to the front page.
Following the tick box idea above, I'd like to have the above list include all of the single malt whiskies available and a tick box would identify whether it is in my collection or not and promote it to the front page (of the section). Of course this would also then mean that I could create a summary page for the whiskies NOT in my collection similar to the front page - Ideally the list would be ordered so that I could select the top five that I would like to add to my collection next, and then the rest.
You may get an idea of what I'm after from the static page I started with http://wayne.smifff.net/08-19-whisky-jar That page could be so much cooler if data driven.
I think the place to start might be with book>story>CCK and views with some custom nodes. Before I start I'd like to make sure that I'm going to do things "the drupal way", not fight it. I think that this project will be simple for Drupal to do, a bit more difficult for me to do, but could be a good way for me to get my hands dirty with drupal, without burning my fingers.
So where to start?
Thanks for any advice,
Wayne.
CCK
I would start with CCK, Contemplate, Views, to get things started. CCK has a lot of modules that you can add.
You might want to compare Version 5 module availability verses version 6. You might find more modules that you might want.
CCK will give you fields for information.
Contemplate, will give you custom displays if the content for teasers and page.
Views is good for lists
You might want to look at this page for ratings and reviews modules.
http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/60
http://drupal.org/project/fivestar
http://drupal.org/project/nodereview
Thanks VSR!
Thank you,
I have been playing around with this on and off for the last week, and I think I have worked out how to do it. My first impression was correct in that it is really quite trivial for drupal to do this, it was just a matter of working out where I needed to start from. I'm still having a little trouble trying to get the view result themed as I'd like, but that should come, once I get a bit more time to look at it.
It depends on what sort of
It depends on what sort of relationships and content you want.
You could have whisky nodes, distillery nodes, and link them with CCK noderef.
Tasting notes could be comments on a whisky node, or nodes in their own right, again depending on what you want to do with them.
You might want nodequeue for the front page.
Thank you Joachim
That is a great idea, and it makes the site even more dynamic with drupally goodness than I had originally thought of. Now that I think I have the first part worked out, I can progress further with making more nodes.
I'm really enjoying this.