By hivltg on

Hey,
Currently I run the site http://gamestand.net. It uses dragonfly CMS, however I am finding it very limiting and not an ideal solution.

I was wondering if drupal has a module available that is useful for posting downloads and giving information about the software/game e.g. http://gamestand.net/Downloads/details/id=1.html. Im looking to integrate the sites forum, blog and main downloads section in to one clean site. I liked the look of steamfriends.com that is partly based on drupal and a similar look is what I want to achieve http://www.steamfriends.com/game/3994. Could someone please let me know if drupal is capable and which modules I should be looking at to achieve my goal. Thanks

Dan

gamestand.net

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

tstoeckler’s picture

tstoeckler
he/him
Primary language German
Location Essen, Germany
commented

Drupal can surely achieve this.
You will want to look at the Content Construction Kit. There you can define additional content types and add fields to them. You would want Filefield. Additionally you can add text fields for descriptions or other fields. Maybe try Fivestar module for voting on downloads?
You will also want to look at Views module. With Views you can create custom content listings, vor instance listings of all downloads, or all downloads in one category (for categories see the taxonomy module that is shipped with Drupal core), or all downloads that were rated good, etc. It's very flexible.
Drupal Core comes with a Forum module, if that isn't good enough you could try the Advanced Forum module, which is being very actively developed and has additional features.
Drupal core also ships with a blog module.

Please let us hear how it went and report back if you have any problems!

hivltg’s picture

hivltg commented

Thanks for the quick reply. That was very useful. I will try and report back within 2 weeks (on holiday 4 a week 2moz).Drupal does look like a very flexable cms. The difficult part seems to be wading though the modules and figuring out the best solution. Your advise will definetly get me started on developing a test drupal site. Thank you :D

deciphered’s picture

deciphered
Primary language English
Location Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
commented

I would also suggest FileField Paths to sort/rename uploaded files.