By crossed.out on

Hello,

A friend and I are starting up a music review site, but we need a few pointers on how to get it how we would like it to look.

Essentially, new albums will be posted with a full review, and criteria such as Artist, Genre, Release Date, Mastering Engineer, etc.. should be displayed in a wikipedia-style info box. Is there some sort of module that will allow for this information to be filled in as fields when creating a new entry; and format them into a the info box that sits at the top right hand corner? At the moment; we have just been trying things with HTML in the post bodies, but something a little more automated would be wonderful.

Another thing is ratings. We hope to review not only the music on the albums, but the quality of the sounds (sonics). I have been playing around a bit with fivestar; and trying to install the patch for multiple ratings (we need 2 - 1 for music, 1 for sonics). In my searches for these types of features, I came across a post of someone linking to their website to show the feature being implicated. The info box shown here is essentially what we would like to achieve:

http://goofans.com/download/level/collect-and-go

I'm sorry that these are horribly newbish questions, but I've spent hours searching and couldn't come up with anything; but as shown above, it is possible with Drupal!

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ckng
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For custom fields, use CCK
For layout there are a lot of ways depending on what you trying to achieve
- modify node-CONTENTTYPE.tpl.php
- use Views to generate a page
- use Views to generate a block and display on the related node
- use contemplate
- ...

For fivestar, I don't think you need to patch it to get what you want to do. Just need to specify the axis of the fivestar (i.e. used as in CCK). Add 2 fivestar fields, one with 'music' axis and another 'sonics' axis.

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