Tom,

Welcome to Drupal!

First off, Drupal's "blog" module is really designed for sites where more than one person has a blog on the same site. If you don't have more than one person posting the articles, you don't need to bother with the blog module and it might even confuse you. You can rename the "story" content type to "news blog" or something, or simply create a new content type if you want to keep the story content type.

Yes, you can change the published date field for any node to any date you want and use that as a method to get them to sort properly.

There are many other ways in Drupal to get content to sort in the order you want. Later down the road you will certainly find yourself installing the views module and maybe also the node queue module to help you pull out stuff the way you want it. But as a beginner I think just editing the date published field would be fine.

Good luck,

Shai
content2zero.comhttp://content2zero.com

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Tom Holmes Jr. <tom@tomholmes.net> wrote:
I'm creating a new site in Drupal 5.7 hosted at SiteGround.
I'm collecting data (news) from two older sites, and I will move them
into this new site.

So ... I was thinking of creating a blog .... that way every new news
item goes to the top of the list and the old news items get pushed down.
The problem is that since I am collecting data from other sites, I would
like to sort these things myself.
For example as I create these entries, I will include a date that the
news item happened, I would like it sorted in that Chronological order
with the most recent first.
If I just create a blog and I add items out of data order, I am afraid
they will appear in the blog out of order.

So, since I haven't looked at the blog, can I edit the create date and
put it in the order I want?
If so that's great, then I can create my entries and they will be sorted
on the date I entered, not on the actual date I created the node.
If that solution won't work, what is an alternative solution?

Thanks for the help!
                                                 Tom
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