Sorry if this question has been asked alot, and maybe I'm just beating a dead horse here, but I've been looking for this problem for a bit now and I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I'm not too familiar with all the drupal jargon, but I do know how to setup the taxonomy stuff with the vocabularies and terms and nodes and whatnot.
Firstly, I'm using the drupal package that is in the Debian repository which currently is only 4.5.3. If I have to I could install a newer version.
I am wondering, on the main drupal site (http://drupal.org) the top right area, the primary links, go to directories with the same name. So the support link goes to http://drupal.org/support and downloads goes to http://drupal.org/project and so forth... How is this set up? Does each sub directory have a different instance of Drupal running? Is this some module that they are using? Is this a feature of a newer version of Drupal?
I want to set up a site similar to the way this is set up, so an "about" link would go to mysite.com/about instead of say mysite.com/?q=taxonomy/term/9 or even mysite.com/?q=about if I set up a url alias, but still have the said link (about) in the same drupal site for administration purposes. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this with the default install, if it is even possible.
Also, how can I get the taxonomy vocabularies to create/display as primary links dynamically. If I make a new Vocab (category?) and then it'll show up there? Right now I have to manually create them in the themes area.
Lastly, is there a module so that if you clicked one of the primary links or even just go to one of the taxonomy's vocabulary to give a list of all the terms inside. For example, my "about" vocab has resume, contact, links for nodes (terms?) underneath. How can I get it so that when a user goes to the About section, there is a secondary list of links for "resume", "contact" and "links" but if they go to another section like Guides there are other secondary links for guides but not for About. I have a feeling that Drupal does not work in this way but I wanted to confirm this.
TIA! Andrew