Kelly Harding wrote:
On 16/05/07, *Erik Steffl* <steffl@bigfoot.com mailto:steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
I am using drupal 5 (since 4.x or so) and while it's easy to install and setup as well as add various content types I am still struggling with trying to figure out how to do the overall site layout. Let's say I want to have a generic news/blog (that works out of the box) but I also want distinct (example) sections for Music (my audio files etc.), computers/linux (setup, progamming projects etc.), Sports etc. When I say distinct I mean at least obviously distinct in navigation menu, possibly distinct themes/styles/modules enabled etc.I find the menu trim module very helpful here.
For instance on my own website (geekgothgrrl.co.uk http://geekgothgrrl.co.uk) there are a number of different sections, with menu trim I can remove sections from the menu tree when people navigate it, so it only contains links to relevant content. Works quite well I find.
There is a taxonomy-theme module too, that'd allow you to specifiy a different theme by term.
you have the top/main/primary menu (Kelly, Computing, Classic Cars, Old Stuff ...) - is that a manually created menu that points to specific nodes? (from source I see it points to specific nodes but how is that generated?) How do you make other nodes to be part of the e.g. Kelly tree (like Cats, Interests etc.)? Is it a book or?
each of your sections (or whatever you call what the primary menu points to) has a different navigation menu (top left block) - is that the menu trim module? (drupal.org seems to be down so can't check menu trim module)
thanks,
erik