I have just spent a week or so evaluating Drupal and find it to be a
very mature, very comprehensive CMS.
I want to port a static html web site over to Drupal and I'd like to do
it in such a way that moving forward I can take advantage of the
features that Drupal provides. One of the things I have been struggling
with is what to with its current static navigation menu.
I started by recreating that menu (list of single hyperlinks) using the
core Drupal menu module. That works but I think as the site matures and
I attract more viewers, and thereby over time more content, I'd probably
want to go with the menu derived from a taxonomy.
I tried replicating the menu with the taxonomy_menu module. I defined
each category with one of the list menu items from above, defining no
terms for now. I did this because over time I expect the taxonomy to
fill out and as this happens I could add the appropriate terms as necessary.
When I was all done I had my menu re-created but I had no way no
associate a particular node with each item. Now I'm stuck.
Should I expect this to work, or is the only purpose of a category to
provide a link to select that will expand and display its associated,
selectable term item?
Thanks - Tod
