[consulting] DrupalCOM: european Small Business distro

[Dan Robinson]

>>  
>>
>>     In short I think that a summary of the above would be to say
>> "impose a
>>     'simple' information architecture (IA) and navigational context
>> (menus)
>>     for a 'brochure' website" - the IA is a simple hierarchy and some
>>     blocks.  I should be able to "declare" something like the
>> following -
>>
>>     Home
>>     Our Services
>>         Strategy
>>         Marketing
>>         Technology Consulting
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>     Once that is done I should have a site with menus - DONE
>>
>>     This by the way is a Joomla killer imho (tm).
>>
>> This is completely doable today...use book pages as the base for your
>> static content. Enable the book navigation block. And...DONE.
>>
>> Turn off all other node types except for:
>> * story (use this for news/press releases)
>>
>> Optional:
>> * blog (if you want to have a "company blogs" section)
>>
>
> I think the new menu_otf stuff in 4.7 will help this a fair bit. And,
> while yes you can do it with books, I agree books are non-intuitive
> and not totally ideal. Personally, I think the menu system is the way
> to go here.

yes - basically I agree - but I think this is missing the main point -
you have to dig too deeply to use the menu system the way they are (it
took me 20 mins. to figure out the 4.7 menus and I'm a Drupal expert
(tm) (end-user)).  I think that the "it already does this" approach is
exactly what isn't working - yes - I know that - you know that - Ber
knows that - we're talking about something else.

>
> A friend of mine here in Toronto recently launched a drupal site:
>
> http://www.avenza.com/
>
> that's pretty brochure-y and has the kind of navigation stuff most
> corporate sites are looking for. (uses menu and menu_otf, 4.6, and
> some added menu stuff in the theme).

yes - this is exactly what I am talking about - and you should be able
to do this in 5 minutes with a very basic understanding of web apps, and
no HTML or CMS experience.  And if you could many people would be very
happy.  And you would be a hero.  And a great period of world peace
would be ushered into the universe.  Well scratch that - that probably
wouldn't happen....