By robmypro on

I installed Drupal tonight and everything is up and running. I must say I am impressed with this piece of software. Very clean. As I am planning on using Drupal for a hierarchical corporate site, I knew going in that Drupal is not like Mambo. But this has proved a bit more challenging than I thought. In fairness, it is Day (night) 1, so Rome wasn't built in a day. But I cannot seem to figure out a good strategy to create a structure like:

Home
-- Company
---- About us
---- History
---- Jobs
-- Services
---- Service offering 1
---- Service offering 2
-------- Service Sub offering 1
-------- Service Sub offering 2
-- Clients
---- Portfolio
---- Testimonials

I guess I am trying to figure out where vocabulary, terms, menus, menu items, content, books, pages, etc. come into play here, and how I use them to create a typical hierarchical corporate site structure.

Anyone want to help a total newbie out?

Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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p0ppe’s picture

p0ppe commented

This page was a real eye-opener for me. I personally decided to go with menu.module plus menu on the fly, with the book module coming in second.

Muslim guy’s picture

Muslim guy commented

Drupal is loved for excellent organization of categories & content.

Contents can be categorized according to what you want it to be, not according to what format it does. This means, corporate images can be put together with corporate intro in `About Us'.

See http://smart-paradise.com

the little menu on the left is the SHORTCUTS menu

Go to your site
http://yorsite.com/admin/taxonomy (The menu says categories but in Drupal, it is called taxonomy, so go with it)

Home » administer
categories

* list
* add vocabulary

The taxonomy module allows you to classify content into categories and subcategories; it allows multiple lists of categories for classification (controlled vocabularies) and offers the possibility of creating thesauri (controlled vocabularies that indicate the relationship of terms) and taxonomies (controlled vocabularies where relationships are indicated hierarchically). To delete a term choose "edit term". To delete a vocabulary, and all its terms, choose "edit vocabulary".
Name Type Operations
AWAS book page, forum topic, image, page, poll, quote, story

edit vocabulary add term preview form

AWAS (edit term)
BANTUAN KECEMASAN (edit term)
MALAYSIA (edit term)
-- Johor Darul Takzim (edit term)
-- Kedah Darul Aman (edit term)

So for your corporate site:

Home ------------->omit this, since you will have the breadcrumb displaying Home in every page, no need to create Home

Create a vocabulary named `My Company Name Pte Ltd etc'
Enable multiple/hierarichal for the vocab above. Then configure this vocab to include content type (page, story, image, webform, poll, forum etc what have you installed). If you wish to separate image from the vocab, then dont include it.

Then create terms and subterms.

-- Company Term1
---- About us subterms
---- History
---- Jobs

-- Services Term2
---- Service offering 1
---- Service offering 2
-------- Service Sub offering 1
-------- Service Sub offering 2

-- Clients Term3
---- Portfolio
---- Testimonials

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http://muslimin.org/Islam
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sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

Take a look at this thread
http://drupal.org/node/31896

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

robmypro’s picture

robmypro commented

Thanks for the help everyone! Reviewing the many resources you've provided now. Looks like Drupal has our needs covered.