By TamboWeb on

I have finished one Drupal 5.x site and I am very pleased with the results. I am now in the process of developing three additional sites and would like to get some advise how to proceed with the implementation. Following is a description of my goals.

Content Categories:

I would like to categorize my content and have Drupal display teasers for each category landing page as it does for the home page. Here is an example of the structure I am seeking to implement;

  • Home – Global teaser list of all content categories.
  • Category 1 – teaser list of all content within category 1 and its subcategories.
  • Category 2 -- teaser list of all content within category 2 and its subcategories.
  • Category 3 -- teaser list of all content within category 3 and its subcategories.

Menu Structures:

I would like the menu structure to be such that the main categories are presented as a list without any child items. This list is to appear on all pages as this would be the main navigation. Then when the site visitor navigates to a Category Landing Page a menu would appear listing the Sub-Categories without child items in a sidebar block.

When a visitor navigates to a page I would like a block to list a number of related articles.

My Questions:

I am not sure what is the best way to implement this.
Do I need to create different content types for each category and sub-category?
Or,
Would it be better to use taxonomy to categorize content.

Is it possible to create a sticky for each category.

How do I show a teaser list on the category landing pages for each category or sub-category?
Is this best done with views or with custom templates pages and how to implement it.

How do I set up the menu system so that these are created automatically so that I don’t have to manually create menus for each category, sub-category and related articles list.

Any ideas comments and suggestions are most appreciated.

Sandro.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

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betz commented

Have a look at http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu

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TamboWeb commented

Betz, thanks for responding so quickly.

So here is what I think needs to happen, correct me if I am wrong.

For each category teasers,
1.- create a page for each category.
2.- create a view and sort/filter as needed for each category.
3.- Put this view block in the content area.

For Category menus, sub-menus.
1.- create a taxonomy vocabulary and terms.
2.- create menu using taxonomy menu module.

To categorize content, simply assign taxonomy terms at the time content is added to the cms. This eliminates the need to create different content types for each category/subcategory.

Now One last question, Is it possible to create a sticky for each category?.

thanks.
Sandro