By duners on

Hi,

I'm about to roll out a new version of my website in a few months and already coming up with some desgn/maintenance issues - along the lines of: can this be done any easier? So, I've been scouting around for solutions and came across Drupal which, I think, might be what I need.

Here's what I'm trying to do. The site will have several new items posted every day to it, and right now I'm looking at hand-coding all the changes to the pages as new items are put up (each new item pushes down the previous ones. For example: As new headlines appear, older ones move into a 'recent articles' section on the homepage, and as they get pushed down, they are then archived in an 'old articles' page(s).

I know I'm probably describing this all back to front and I'm pretty much trying to do what blog software does (except the site has a specific design using CSS).

So, I'm really needing something to automate what would be a laborious task of moving around every article on the site as new ones come up. Something that can fit into my deign framework.

Think Drupal best fits my needs?

Any help gratefully appreciated

Cheers

Comments

the_undefined’s picture

the_undefined commented

Yes I think drupal will be easily able to do that. If you need any help there are tons of people in the forums that will answer your questions ; ).

Felix

Geary’s picture

Geary commented

The reverse chronological posting you describe is the most basic function of any blogging software or blog-like CMS such as Drupal.

You can make a Drupal theme that gives your site any appearance you want.

Or you could use WordPress or any similar software.

duners’s picture

duners commented

Thanks guys. Reverse chronology posting - if there's a long way round of explaining something, that'd be me. ;)

I'm going to go give Drupal a bash, look at the templates and work my way round it.

Cheers