On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Mike Melanson wrote:
Hi, I want to use a CMS for a new project I am working on (tired of managing all HTML by hand). Drupal is one of the Fantastico-equipped scripts that my ISP offers. I see other sites doing neat things with Drupal but I have no idea how to make it do these things.
I need to make a navigation menu block. I notice that the "Navigation" module 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.
Look at the Drupal Downloads page. You may want to look at some of the other taxonomy modules, which give you a lot of choices about organizing and presenting various views of information on the site.
Drupal is a terrific platform, but like any CMS, it requires a bit of study. Compared to other CMS platforms, I've found Drupal to be much easier and simpler to use. But there is no free lunch. Any powerful CMS, whether Drupal or something like Zope will require some work. Drupal's extensible module architecture is really wonderful.
Andrew
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