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By Deathbliss on
OK, to make a long story short I had a website using PHP Fusion at the very last at Gamespy before they shut down hosting services and killed my website which was nearly 10 years old.
I looked around for a good free host and found 000WebHost, then I started to look for another CMS and found Textpattern. I figured I could start over.
After playing with Textpattern for a while I decided it was far to difficult to do what I want, and far too limiting, but I loved the Section/Category layout.
I stumbled on Drupal, I think I found it before, but with access to a system of libraries I was able to find a few books and get a Drupal site running offline in an effort to learn the system and get an idea as to how to create the site I want. I've run into a few rough patches though.
First off as I understand it I'm supposed to use Taxonomy to create sections and categories on a Drupal website. I think I got that handled now. But what I can't figure out is how to create a page for each section.
For example, if I wanted to have a reviews section on my site then I create a Vocabulary for the section, say Reviews, then the Terms, the categories each review will have to fall into. Now I know I can use the Views module, in conjunction with Taxonomy and new Content to create a page with various lists of the content in the section, in this case Review.
Now is there any simpler way to do this? Perhaps a graphical way to create a page and adjust the elements on it?
Moving on to themes and the next question... Are there any video tutorials out there showing the process of created the thematic elements for say a video game website, creating the graphics in Photoshop, setting up the CSS, and importing them into a new Drupal theme? I mean step-by-step-my 5-year-old-daughter could do this tutorials?
Moving on to Modules... OK so I started to browse the Modules section here until I discovered there were a few thousand entries. For someone running a video game website, where they are going to create reviews, have files submitted, have a queue,and throw out a few tutorials what are the best modules to have in order to create and run such a site?
One last thing before I go... I want to thank the creators of Drupal, and the community which works for it and supports it. I read Doughnut's rant and can see where they are coming from. I also understand the frustration of opening a program like Drupal and having to repress and urge to run from the room screaming and pulling your hair out. But I can tell a lot of work has gone into this and I just want to say I appreciate it.
- Deathbliss
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In the future consider a thread with one question. rather than a thread with multiple. Asking somone to spean 15 - 20 minutes on a single support thread can be iffy with reference to ever getting an answer. reading http://drupal.org/forum-posting will aid you with getting answers from the forums.
Briefly .....
taxonomy creates it's own lists see: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy otherwise your options are views.module (which you already found) or writing your own database query.
No idea what the above means in reference to the preceeding paragraph, which is what I presume "this" mean.
If you mean you are looking for some kind of editor to create nodes start with the wysiwyg.module. If other, please be more verbose.
themes = http://acquia.com/community/resources/acquia-tv/tips-and-tricks-drupal-t...
otherwise, google is your friend here. A 5 year old likely wouldn't be building a drupal site, they'd be coloring with crayons. Drupal has a learning curve. Many would call it steep. With each version released some of that gets taken away however, having an understanding of the underlying techonologies will always be of benefit.
modules =
cck.module to create your content type, which will allow you to use addon modules to add fields, ie: imagefield.module, filefield.module so on so forth.
drupalmodules.com may be a better place for you to research drupal modules and as much as people hate to read it, google is your friend.
Sections & Categories
You might consider creating a content type for your various categories. Said content type could have various fields -- review title, product review, product url, product photo, associated genre. For genre you might use taxonomy and then sort your reviews by genre (using the Views module).
When you look at modules, sort by most downloaded. The first 2 pages will have most of what you need. From what you described you will need CCK, Views, Filefield and maybe five star and some useful utilities like Admin Menu and Backup and Migrate.
Good Luck
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