Comparing CSM systems

By roy2423 on 27 Feb 2004 at 17:36 UTC

Hi Everyone,

We have just downloaded a competitors system but now unsure if this does indeed meet our needs. I hope someone can advise and although not technical, I will try and be as clear as possible about aims.

We have a site with a high visitor ratio and want to offer further topic related information/sites.

We are employing expert editors/jouralists to manage their specific topic/subjects and be able to upload their information (text/images etc)to their 'site' which is linked from our home page. The different topics (such as finance, travel, gardening and the list goes on)needs to be independent from each other and managed seperatly from each other... in other words complete ownership is by our trusted editors to keep their information fresh and updated. Each site will/must have their own menus bars, providing for sub categories related to that topic to then link to another site pertinent to that sub topic etc. For example there will be different URLs like:

www.mydomain.com/finance
www.mydomain.com/finance/banks (being another site linked from finance)
www.mydomain.com/travel
www.mydomain.com/travel/hotels

Once the visitor browses through to the first link (lets say Finance) then this page will be totally finance orientated with sub-topic links coming off this one and again managed by different editors. ad infinitem so to speak. Advertiser are then attracted to thier sectors (topic) seperatly from other topic sites. All though, coming off the same domain. The overall control of this will be with the individual editors, but with one overall 'master administrator' (for another word)

The home page where the orginal links will reside will revolve and this will be up to our Media people to organise accordingly and one week we may have 10 topics (1-10) and the next week topics 4,7, 9 may change to topics 11, 14 & 19. There will be some static topics that remain on the site always.

My question, (I suppose) is...is this possible.... with the flexibilty, controls and security being assured?

I do hope that this is clear....?

Thank you to anyone who can advise.

Regards,

Roy
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1) with the path module you c

killes@www.drop.org commented 27 February 2004 at 17:52

1) with the path module you can give your links any name you like.
2) You can do mass url aliasing, see path.module docs.
3) the taxonomy.module can help you organize your site the way you want. you might need to implement some UI, though, or use some of the taxonomy based modules in contrib.

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roy2423 commented 27 February 2004 at 18:15

Thanks for answering... I am not totally undertsanding your advice, I think more to do with not being familia with the product and not really seen a full demo or example of what I am trying to say.... is this possible? Also, being non-technical, it hasnt helped although you have I am sure. Is there a more laymans way of describing what your saying. Thanks in advance for your trouble and time.

Roy

Go to the admin screen of you

killes@www.drop.org commented 27 February 2004 at 18:27

Go to the admin screen of your Drupal installation and enable the path and taxonomy modules. Then read the docs on the help pages of both modules.

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Go to the admin screen....

roy2423 commented 27 February 2004 at 18:43

Ahh... now i see... I have not downloaded yet... sorry if i misled you in anyway....I ahve downloaded postnuke... and indeed found it doesnt do what I want it to do... hence I am here...I would like to see something and not sure where though? I ahve been at this now for about a week and hopefully getting nearer to finding something that will do this, but I am 'blind' right now in actually seeing the Drupal system in operation.

Regards,

Roy