[support] Site layout with drupal

[Erik Steffl]

Kelly Harding wrote:
> 
> 
>      >
>      > I find the menu trim module very helpful here.
>      >
>      > For instance on my own website ( geekgothgrrl.co.uk
>     <http://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?
> 
> 
> What I did was I created a new menu (I also created new menus for admin 

   is this the menu you later trim? or is this just top level menu?

> tasks, but thats a different matter really). Then under admin -> build 
> -> menu I went to settings and selected the new menu instead of primary 
> links. Voila navigation menu at top where primary links should be.
> 
> I should mention a gotcha with this however. You need to check 
> compatibility with themes, as not all themes provide enough room for a 
> menu instead of primary links. I did previously have a seconday menu 
> instead of secondary links, but theme issues prevented it from working 
> correctly.
> 
> You then need the Menu Trim module. Select the menu you wish to trim, 
> trim it (should be self-explanitary really) and then edit the menu 

   ok, almost self explanatory except of: what menu do you trim? Is it 
automatically generated from taxonomy or from relationship of nodes or 
do you create the whole thing manually?

   thanks for the info, I'll look into menu trim module,

	erik