[support] Site layout with drupal

[Erik Steffl]

Kelly Harding wrote:
> On 16/05/07, *Erik Steffl* <steffl at bigfoot.com 
> <mailto:steffl at bigfoot.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I am using drupal 5 (since 4.x or so) and while it's easy to install and
>     setup as well as add various content types I am still struggling with
>     trying to figure out how to do the overall site layout.
> 
>     Let's say I want to have a generic news/blog (that works out of the
>     box)
>     but I also want distinct (example) sections for Music (my audio files
>     etc.), computers/linux (setup, progamming projects etc.), Sports etc.
> 
>     When I say distinct I mean at least obviously distinct in navigation
>     menu, possibly distinct themes/styles/modules enabled etc.
> 
> 
> I find the menu trim module very helpful here.
> 
> For instance on my own website (geekgothgrrl.co.uk 
> <http://geekgothgrrl.co.uk>) there are a number of different sections, 
> with menu trim I can remove sections from the menu tree when people 
> navigate it, so it only contains links to relevant content. Works quite 
> well I find.
> 
> There is a taxonomy-theme module too, that'd allow you to specifiy a 
> different theme by term.

   you have the top/main/primary menu (Kelly, Computing, Classic Cars, 
Old Stuff ...) - is that a manually created menu that points to specific 
nodes? (from source I see it points to specific nodes but how is that 
generated?) How do you make other nodes to be part of the e.g. Kelly 
tree (like Cats, Interests etc.)? Is it a book or?

   each of your sections (or whatever you call what the primary menu 
points to) has a different navigation menu (top left block) - is that 
the menu trim module? (drupal.org seems to be down so can't check menu 
trim module)

   thanks,

	erik