By phatmike10 on

Hi Guys,

I’m new to Drupal and am going to implement Drupal into my website in stages. First stage is to replace my news section with drupal. www.allbuyart.com/news.asp

I want www.allbuyart.com/news.asp to look the same once created in Drupal. I understand I need to mess about with the HTML and CSS of the theme, that shouldn’t be a problem.

As you can see on the Art News page there are pictures with links and a teaser for each news article. Please could you tell me how I can recreate this in Drupal so that every time I add a new article it gets added to this page in this format (picture, link, description)?

Thanks

Mike

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WorldFallz commented

Please don't create duplicate threads. I've deleted the 2 dupes, thanks.

As for your question, the links above don't work for me, but you should be able to use the http://drupal.org/project/cck and http://drupal.org/project/views modules to get what you want.

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phatmike10 commented

Sorry for the dupes.

The site is www.allbuyart.com/art-news.asp

So you reckon by using the 2 modules you've suggested I should be able to achieve the format outlined in my first post?

thanks

Mike

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WorldFallz commented

Yep-- shouldn't be a problem. You may also want to take a look at the http://drupal.org/project/panels and http://drupal.org/project/composite modules.

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phatmike10 commented

will do, thank you very much for your help

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phatmike10 commented

Hi,

I downloaded these modules, apart from campaign as I thought I’d see how the others work before I venture into another one.

I’m integrating Drupal only on my News pages the rest of my site will remain static and non Drupal powered. I’m about to create a new theme which matches the rest of my site. My question is, is it possible to add my current html links bar which is at the top of each page on my site and on the left hand side of each page, into a theme?

Second question is when I add a new page it automatically goes to the top of the homepage, how can I stop this?

My third question is I created a panel for the main page (homepage) of my news section. When editing the panel I clicked add content, I could add recent comments and recent forum posts, how do I add just recent story posts?

Thank you for your help

Mike

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WorldFallz commented

1. just manually create menu items for them at admin/build/menu

2. uncheck the "promoted to front" option (either the default on the content type edit form, or per node in the 'publishing options' fieldset.

3. i'm not positive, but you probably have to create a view of 'story' nodes then add that view to a panel.