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By rael4311 on
Actually, I have already installed Drupal, and played with it for a few days. But seriously, here's
all I want to do (and I already posted in Module Development -- wrong place for beginners like me).
All I want to do is:
Allow users to log in, create a page that looks like a web page/site (with a title, body, other items), and for that web page to be available for other people to view.
I'll keep the left and right columns for content management, but I want it to look like a web page,
and others can link to it easily.
What do I do? (someone suggested Views & CCK, but someone in this forum suggested that would take time). Isn't this something Drupal can do easily?
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Define easily
Drupal is a content management framework. Your asking by the sounds of it for a simple myspace, and this is not something that any CMS does out of the box 'easily' that I know of.
Can it be done? Sure it can and has been done, but that kind of functionality is not necessarily easy.
OK, alright, not easily.
OK, alright, not easily. I'm up for the task, though. But there should be a way to do it. After all, a page or 'posting' is stored in the database, and so wouldn't it just be a matter of making certain stored items default items on a user's page? A graphic can be uploaded to a page, and so shouldn't a page be formattable (at least, more than it currently is?).
So, one of the members of the forum recommended Views + CCK, which I installed. I'm not sure what to do with them - how could one configure them so that items would appear in 'add content' on a user's page, to let them 'post a title to their page', or 'add text', and 'add a graphic'?
I'm thinking that all these things are a step away from what a users 'adding content' does already.
Any advice you have to give, or instruction on how to do this is appreciated. If you could even point me to a place on the forum where this is treated (keywords, etc?) that would be great
Read here
Start reading here --> http://drupal.org/node/35728 and maybe you will get some ideas.
Use Mysite Module
Hey
You can use mysite module......... http://drupal.org/project/mysite
MySite pages let users create a personalized summary of the site by adding selected content elements to their personal page. The MySite module is similar to tools like MyYahoo!, iGoogle and NetVibes........................
Thanks