Hello Drupal Community,

First, thanks for taking a few moments to read this thread. This isn't to advertise my first Drupal site whatsoever, but to solicit any input that you would graciously provide.

For now, I'll just conceptually explain my site, b/c it's a personal, family-friend, type site.

Drupal v6.14
Gallery v2.3

Main purpose for the is for sharing photos. Hence the implementation of embedding Gallery 2.3, which took some bearing and grinning, mind you.

The G2 portion is locked down via User Roles. Only 2 roles defined, Friend and Family, in addition to the default anonymous and authenticated.

Drupal core features used: Blog, Forums, Page contents.

Current theme: PushButton

Current Home page is basic one stating the following:

Welcome to OurSite. We are still configuring the site, so please excuse any bugs.

If you have created an account, then please check the following link for general info.

Change/updates to the site will be placed in the Forums.

This is an effort of having the site live, while still configuring things as we go.

Would also appreciate any help, feedback on how things are working or if they are not! Laughing out loud

Make sure to introduce yourself in the Forums -- Welcome Mat. Just Create a new forum topic and say hello!

Thus, if I understand correctly, content does not get posted to the front page at this time.

I have only spent time to get these main features for content working with Core where possible, however, I do have contributed modules as well. So minimal use or configuring of blocks have been done (i.e,. navigation, recent blog posts, new forum topics, etc.).

I am using wysiwyg w/ tinyMCE, IMCE, and the g2image button integration. Kudos fantastic on that last one! What I really like about this is that the Blogs are public and we can choose/select photos to thumbnail from the G2 (private) to be public.

With that background information, here are is where I'd like some input:

1) Food Recipes. These are like family, favorite ones, and such. I've looked around a little, but come across sites that focus on that type of structure. I'm interested right now, on recommendations of implementing this type content to our site. Any user would be able to solicit a Recipe (I'm thinking it be a Page content-based?). How does that node then or should get organized/placed on the site. Our initial conversations is a tab at the top called Recipes > Categories X, Y, Z. I don't know where to start to implement that, whether I can use core features or use a c.module. Please share your thoughts.

1a) Unpublished Access. I've read that by default, Accounts do not have access to edit content that is "unpublished". I have found that people are using some c.modules (names escape at the moment) to utilize states called Draft, in Review, and Live. This seems like a good use for my site and in general....?

2) Home Page Change. Based on what I described for our current homepage, how would I make or revert the front page act in default manner (ie., blog posts, etc. published to front), but then still have my _configure message_ on the front page at the same time? Recommendations??

I have figured this issue out for the home page.

3) Embedded video. I have c.module installed and it works well. Where should I look to see how to implement, say a Block to show like Random Post Vid on ?

Thanks in advance for any input/suggestions/critiques. I'm willing to get down and dirty w/ some code, but I'd prefer not to.

Edit:

I moved this topic to the Showcase, although I'm far from production review. :( However, I really hope the eyes in this forum could provide some input. I intend to do a proper Showcase when my site is ready.

Below is elaboration on above items I'm hoping for some input further:

1) Recipes. In looking at some other showcases around here, I have installed CCK, Views, Panels, and Flag modules.

1b) Unpublished Access. I need input on how to accomplish this.

3) Embedded Video. I will address this much later, but the newly installed modules, such as Panels should help me accomplish this, correct?

I apologize if I seem a little disorganized as I probably am. I have a plan on what is desired, but I would really like some help on what would be the proper order of steps to accomplish. For instance implementation of Recipes content type.

I created this type in core. I made a test splash page that has a Primary Menu. I found out that that core cannot direct this content type to that page like how Blogs and Forums work. Thus finding that CCK etc. would accomplish this effort. Yes, I am aware of a Recipe module, however, this is one thing I'd really like to bite down and learn. So I guess I would solicit for a tutorial of some sort to accomplish or learn. I will look at was is already on the CCK page, but if you some of you have better references please bring it. ;)

That's it for now. I humbly thank you in advance.