By mcsolas on

I inherited a website built on joomla 1 platform. I was somewhat familiar with the project as I had been interested in mambo/joomla before learning about drupal and subsequently, moving my other sites to this cms.

I tried to work with it and have had problems with everything. Rather than rebuilding the site into Joomla 1.5 (they seem to offer no upgrade path), I am going to use the cms I prefer and rebuild the site using drupal.

They made use of a slideshow system on the old site and I think that would be nice if I can recreate something similar. Also, is there any tricks to how we would configure the content types to accommodate for displaying the projects properly. They have several projects, each with properties they would like to list under the project. If anyone has feedback on modules I might want to check into, please let me know.

Here is the old site I am about to upgrade:
http://costaricabeachandlake.com/

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aitala commented

You might start here -> http://drupal.org/node/80195

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onejam commented

I used to use Joomla before moving over to Drupal. There some overlaps in both CMS though in my experience Drupal is more customizable without needing to hack the core which became frustrating during upgrades.

Anyway, are you trying to migrate the contents? and what slideshow system were you using on Joomla?

use CCK to setup your content-types and then Views to display the info for projects.

CCK - http://drupal.org/project/cck

Views - http://drupal.org/project/views

Migrate your content - http://drupal.org/project/joomla (currently only D5 version)

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mcsolas commented

Thank you so much for the feedback!

I checked out the node and that is perfect, I am going to print that info out to help with the conversion process. Its nice to have the terminology matched up.

I will read up on the cck / views modules.

I was using the rokSlideshow and another one.. simple image gallery. The only feature that I thought was nice was they offered the ability to use a "Ken Burns effect" transition which gives the images a little motion. Not necessary but it did add a nice touch to the slideshows.

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onejam commented

Here's the Frontpage slideshow which was also available for Joomla:

http://code.google.com/p/fpss-drupal/

Shame no Drupal 6 version as yet.

A search on this site reveal quite a few to choose from: http://drupal.org/search/node/type%3Aproject_project+slideshow

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mcsolas commented

The front page slideshow looks nice. I really like the slide summary in the right column. I see they are still updating the project and may move it to drupal 6. Since its not ready, I will sort through the existing list you sent me and see what works. At the most basic level I just need to show an image, caption and link that to the page its referencing.

For the caption, I figure it would just import the nodes title. The image, I assume I will come from a custom field I create in the cck. From there, I guess I will have to find a slideshow system that knows to pull that up.

Thanks for helping me get the ball rolling.

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onejam commented

You could create a custom slideshow using Views: http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow

There is a screencast to show you how it's done: http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/70

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