By coolmann on

Hello all,
my name is lorenzo and I'm member of ariadnecms.it staff, a website dealing about content management systems and accessibility, for italian users. This site is currently managed with Mambo CMS (Joomla), ok... I know... don't blame on me! But now we decided to port the whole site (graphics and contents) to Drupal. Here is our current site:

http://www.ariadnecms.it/index.php

While a "work in progress" for drupal porting is available at

http://www.ariadnecms.it/drupal/

Our graphical designers already did a phptemplates matching our site template. Since we all are "newbies" about Drupal, I've a big question for you guys: do you think that we can port the current contents structure on Drupal? It isn't a real complicated architecture: we have some main categories (latest news, let's talk about, web resources) and some of them have subcategories (let's talk about/accessibility, let's talk about/examples, and so on). After that, we have articles published inside these subcategories. If you think the answer is "yes", can you please help us building the structure, using the taxonomy? Some more questions:

- can we split long articles in pages?
- how about breadcrumbs reflecting the taxonomy gerarchy
- can we hide the "welcome message" title, in the main page?
- is there some module for banner rotation?

Thanks in advance,
lorenzo < at > ariadnecms.it

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aghajani commented

Building categories in Drupal is very easy. You just make vocabulary then add some terms in it. They can have hierarchical relations. Then you can assign this volcabulay to whatever content in your site. For example you can assign it to story module to categorize articles or assign to forum to make different sub-forums for discussions. This may solve your category problems. In this area Drupal is the king.
If you want to publish multi pages content with a good breadcrumb you must use book module.
First make a vocabulary for book module and then assign your articles as book pages and during submission choose the correct category for each node.

coolmann’s picture

coolmann commented

Thank you for your reply, it was clear to us that vocabulary means (also) category :) I did this: create new content -> book page -> filled out every field (comments on, related to a term in "category" vocabulary, etc) but when I try to show it, the breadcrumbs is only "home". Moreover I think I need some other module to show up description of a given taxonomy and terms... :(

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noid commented

can we split long articles in pages?
If not using book, there's a "paging" patch/module being developed I think -- haven't tried it yet:
http://drupal.org/node/30089

(There's also the pagination module, but it only works if you enable for the user full html as the input format, which is, for security reasons (pls correct me), not recommended unless the user is an administrator). --
http://drupal.org/node/25346
http://drupal.org/node/23362

how about breadcrumbs reflecting the taxonomy gerarchy
Use taxonomy context module.

can we hide the "welcome message" title, in the main page?
Do you mean the mission statement? It can be toggled on and off in the theme you are using.

is there some module for banner rotation?
Drupal's banner module is the best I've encountered so far among CMS's I've tried.

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aghajani commented

Whenever you add some child pages in book module, every page title makes an step in breadcrumb. There must be somthing wrong?!