Greetings Druaplers!
I'm pretty new to this, just trying to get my first web site up and running, and I have a couple of issues.
I'm trying to create a page which contains a list of links, I imagine these would be contained in a node. Each node would have a title, comprising the link itself (not necessarily the actual URL) followed by a brief description (but not a teaser) followed by a comments box and possibly star rating widget, followed by any comments that have been submitted. I'd like something similar to this; http://drupal.org/node/371870. I don't want to display "submitted by" information for the moment. There would be more than one page; each one navigable from a menu or submenu item in the sidebar.
I've looked at http://drupal.org/project/links and http://drupal.org/project/weblinks, but haven't been able to figure them out properly and get the desired effect.
As I said, I'm pretty new at this. I've been reading round an googling, but I've not found anything that explains how to achieve this.
Any help much appreciated!
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Web Links
The Web Links module will do almost exactly what you want. Take a look at the current screenshot.
The title is not the link though, unless you change your theme. Drupal standard rendering is that the title points to the node itself; that's what Web Links does. The description can be shown as either full or teaser text.
There is an option to show either the URL or an invitation to click (we call it a "Visit" link). This can be made more outstanding by changing your CSS; for example to make it big and in a different color.
Since Web Links is a standard node, comments can be turned on, ratings can be added, etc. In particular, there is a theme setting for whether or not to show "submitted by" (and you can also customize that text with the Submitted By module).
Web Links organizes its links by "groups" (really taxonomy terms). The standard page displays all links by groups, which may be collapsed. If you wish to show individual groups in the menu, you can either create independent menu entries or the Taxonomy Menu module may do the trick for you.
There are a lot more features you might want to check out as you get used to it, such as the Weblinks_Checker add on to make sure the links don't break over time. There are also many blocks available with the Weblinks_Blocks add-on. These are all distributed with the main module.
NancyDru