[drupal-docs] Difference between a "story" and a "page"

[Charlie Lowe]

This sounds more like a support question, but I'll try to define it as I 
see it. The difference is more in intent to how it is used and how that 
is facilitated. From something I've written previously:

"Stories are posts which appear on the default home page of a Drupal 
site, akin to a community weblog or Slashdot-like site where all site 
members can post. Or, the regular site users can be denied the ability 
to post to the front page using stories, allowing the site 
administrators to use the front page as an announcement board."

"Static pages are a way for a site administrator to create pages which 
are not included in one of the other node displays and could be used 
instead of the Books for additional resource pages."

Now in many ways, the two are similar in that a story could be 
unpublished and serve the same way as a page. But that requires 
administrative access to make this distinction. So the main difference 
to me is that pages and stories have different permission settings and 
default workflow settings, allowing the distinction to happen 
automatically as part of the node creation process for a site. Each is 
then useful for different contexts.

Dan Robinson wrote:
> I've been wondering about this for some time - what is the diff?  I'm 
> writing some doco - so I am assuming the question is fair game here.  
> I've been using Drupal for a couple of months and I've looked around for 
> the answer to this question a number of times.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan