By Surfside on

I built a simple NFL fan website in Dreamweaver CS3 for a local fan club. I have a couple of writers who would like to write regular columns but I don't want to administer and post their work- will Drupal give them access and let them post their text? Is there some capability to have an RSS ping when they add content?

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vm commented

yes you can give each user their own ability to add content in drupal.

as far as the rss ping, rss ping what? who? or where?

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Surfside commented

My experience with RSS is that if you aren't pinging a list of the most pertinent feed consolidators with new content for some period of time, it will take substantially longer before they train themselves to come in and find it on their own.

So the trick for me is to have new content submissions stimulate a ping "notice" for the first 3 or 4 months.

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vm commented

There is a ping module that is part of core. There is also a service_links.module depending on what you want to do.

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Surfside commented

It sounds like I should be adding Drupal to my site. Can you give me some startup hints- my website is at www.losangelesbillsbackers.com. I simply want to add the it into my homepage where the blog titles show up as links, then take the reader to a separate blog page. Can you recommend to me the modules/add-ons that I'll need to plug up, and the easiest way for me to add it into my site without it looking like it's a standalone progam?

Thanks for the help

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vm commented

I don't advocate running drupal seperate. You can use drupal to replace what you already have. If you choose to continue down the road of seperation. you have to install drupal in a subdomain or a subfolder. I'd prefer a subdomain.

I suggest developing on your local machine, then moving drupal from your machine to your server when it is ready. As far as modules are concerned you install what you feel you need.

Drupal already tags content, using its taxonomy.module (part of core). Drupal can already allow your users to have their own blogs with the blog.module (part of core)

I'd get the basics of your idea together then begin to expand based on what features you want your site to have or offer.

I see no reason looking at your site, why it can't all be done within drupal itself. While it may cost you some development time, in the long run I believe it will pay off for you by using drupal to manage all of your content and not "parts" of it.

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Hawkeyi commented

I totally agree. This site should be run completely on drupal. I think it would be easier to completely rebuild it in drupal, then trying to integrate it into your current site.