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By spasebar on
Hello,
I would like to try Drupal in order to build a site that has these features:
Business Directory where visitors can submit their business, and their would be a payment plan they can choose.
Ads that rotate and ads that are static on certain pages
Events
I basically need a site that is for the community in which I live in. I would like to provide valuable content like "recent news or events", the ability for local businesses to submit their business, a section with a calendar or articles that has upcoming events. And the ability to place relevant ads for sponsors and advertisers. But I would like for some of the ads to be static and some not to be.
Can anyone point me in the right direction and give some helpful advice and suggestions.. such things like a good template, and combination of modules to use that would help to create a very professional and good looking website with semi-heavy functionality and potential for a lot of growth.
Thank you very much Drupal community.
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A business directory can be as simple as a content type with the desired fields and listings created by the views module.
If it were me, i'd start with the commerce or commerce_kickstart and commerce_node_checkout modules and see how far I could get. However, although I prefer the commerce modules, some suggest that ubercart (and therefore uc_node_checkout) is simpler for beginners.
Selecting drupal is what will give you the potential for a lot of growth. You can start as simple as you like and, unlike a lot of other options, a drupal site will grow with you. Drupal is like legos so you can just keep adding.
Also, to see what's available in terms of community type functionality checkout the commons distro. Whenever I need to figure out community functionality I always see what modules and methods they use (as they are generally well tested and well maintained).
Wow, thanks WorldFallz, that
Wow, thanks WorldFallz, that is some helpful information. So you suggest one of the commerce options because I mentioned that there would be payment involved for adding a listing.. I may try ubercart since I have heard about it.
Common distro looks really intimidating.
I have actually started building a site on a local environment! I installed Fusion theme and a number of modules - Views of course being one of them. I am having a problem though. I guess a little unrelated to this... but I added three content types that act like blogs, and created a View with a Grid format. I want it to only pull the three content types I have created and also display the name of the content types.
When I create a view there isn't an option to show only the three content types. I have All, taxonomy, etc.. How can I get the view to only show the three content types along with the content type titles? Like one content type is named Group 1, then Group 2, then Group 3.
I want the view to have the title the blog articles with teasers underneath. Exactly like here - http://fusiondrupalthemes.com
Where they have "new designs" "latest news" "in your words"..
Should I post this question in the post installation forum as well?
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