By magnito13th on

Hello Drupal ..

I'm looking forward to build a website (almost finished) that gives many services such as web hosting , community chatter and article writing (submission) ..

I was looking for a free software that can generate web pages automatically , so can help me build the article submission service (such as ezinearticles.com , wikihow.com)

I just found article dashboard (free)(didn't testit yet) and interspire website publisher (excellent and feats all my needs but very expensive for me ..)

Can Drupal help me to do this ? (articles in categories with submission forms ...)
If so , which modules should I add ? and which version of Drupal to install ? 5 or 6 ?

thanks a lot for answering,

Best Rgds
magnito.

Comments

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Yes, drupal can do this. Go with version 6 unless you come across a module you must have that doesn't have a d6 version yet (though i would be cautious about becoming reliant on module without d6 versions at this point). Article submission is part of core drupal.

1websitedesigner’s picture

1websitedesigner commented

Hi,

There are several configurable themes where you install them, then click 'configure' to change colour schemes, page width etc, so as others have said, Drupal is highly customizable and can look like anything you want.

To create an article directory, I'd recommend:

Taxonomy - lets you put different articles in different categories.
Content Access - might be handy to create appropriate permissions (permissions also lets you allow just users who created an article to modify their own article, though you'd have complete control over the site).
Views - this is tricky to learn compared to the rest of Drupal, but lets you create e.g. latest 5 articles, with a specified link, number of characters of text, etc.
PathAuto - automatically renames the URL of a page to fit with the title (very handy for SEO).

Hope that helps!

Martin

www.1websitedesigner.com