By JAGNZ on

Hi All,

I have just installed Drupal and it is great but I need to create some site informational pages that don't look like forum posts! I want to be able to create and manage these pages from within the Drupal Admin Suite but it seems impossible.

For example, on the Drupal site iself, there are pages like these:
http://drupal.org/support
http://drupal.org/
which are info pages that look lime static HTML Pages even though the page content probably comes from within the database.

I don't want to create posts as an admin every time I want to create new site pages, for example, a 'contact us' page (i.e. Pages whose data does not change). I like Drupal but it seems like it can only handle pages that are created out of posts/articles of some kind.

Please tell me I'm wrong as I don't want to create custom HTML pages and then hardlink to them in Drupal - that defeats the point of a CMS. I should be able to create, manage and maintain all my content types from within the CMS itself.

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

Jason Greenwood
New Zealand

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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edrupalec’s picture

edrupalec commented

you can remove the submitted by info thru admin -- themes.

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JAGNZ’s picture

JAGNZ commented

Thanks to all the helpful advice I now have a site that looks and functions almost exactly how I want. There is some esoteric legacy code in the admin suite it seems and it is not all that intuitive to me but it gets the job done anyhow. Thank you all for your valuable input. Once the site goes live I'll submit a link for your review.

Cheers

Jason from New Zealand

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styro commented

Although out of the box the story and page node types behave the same, you can configure them to your liking. eg for page disable the submitted by info etc and use it for your static pages, leaving story for the news article style pages. Different node types can also be themed differently and have different user permissions etc etc.

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sepeck commented

The home page of Drupal is comprosed of a mission statement (The orange block) and a rotating image done through phpTemplate in page.tpl.php for the image on the left.

The drupal.org/support page......
Turn on Page module, path module and menu module.
Turn off the submitted by for page type content, you can find out how in the handbook on this very site
Show/hide 'Submitted by' on posts
Set your default content workflow options for page type content
Set default content options - Stop automatic promotion to the front page

Create your page. Title it Support, alias it as support add it to your menu.

You may want to review this section and this section and the stuff on Drupal terminology to save yourself some frustration.

-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

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sjfarrar commented

Hi James

I just use the page content type and then add a new menu item for it in navigation, is that not doing what you're after?

Stephen
(CHCH, New Zealand)