[drupal-support] Is Drupal the Right CMS?

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Mike Melanson wrote:

> 	The first thing that bothered me was that every bit of content was very
> blog-like (displaying user and time posted). This site is going to have
> static pages that do not necessarily need such information. I figured
> out how to turn off that header via the theme configuration. Out of
> story and article, what do I want to use for static content (e.g., an
> "About" page)?

page.module

> 	I noticed that the book module has an option to display a
> printer-friendly display option. How come this is not the case on other
> types of content?

This option is not needed if you have a printer friendy CSS file.
The book "print" link prints not only the current node, but all the child
nodes too.

> 	I need to make a navigation menu block. I notice that the "Navigation"
> module

There is no such module, but a naviagtion block.

> is enabled by default. But I do not see how to do anything with
> that block. I can make another block for navigation options and populate
> it with an HTML list of links to the appropriate pages within the site.
> But that feels like it violates the CMS model.

Enable menu.module and reads its docs.

Cheers,
	Gerhard