I know only Drupal 6.X

Recepe 1: Without contrib modules:
Disadvantage: the behavior of the overview page (river of news) which shows all news and service nodes is not very configurable. At least not without further ado.

Recepe2: Other method: use views and node types
create node type "news" and "service" and use views2 to create an overview page.

Advantage: no tags necessary. Simplifies input for your editors.
Disadvantage: you have install and learn contrib module views, but believe me sooner or later you will want to do this!

If you have time, try both ways.

you might also want to look at one of my first sites http://www.esem-music.org/ (recepe 1) and a later one of mine (http://mimo-project.eu/, recepe 2)

best
Maurice



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Maurice Mengel
Music Archive
Ethnological Museum
National Museums in Berlin
http://www.ilkar.de
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All:
I just installed drupal and looking to get a website running. I still
have a lot to learn. I want to avoid using any additional modules. One
of the requirements is to create a menu item called "News". This will
display a page of all the available news for the site. I like to have
the ability to create a news page granted for news editors.
Similarly I need a "Services" item. Using taxomony and content types,
this should be possible. Right ?
for example, I created an vocabulary called "News" with one term only
"default" to be applied to a page. Is there a way to create content
type for news only ? and How to add this to the menu ?

Any ideas or tutorials about how to proceed ?
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