Hi,

I have been trying to port a normal old HTML site into drupal. But I'm just having trouble figuring out what is the best way to go about things... One specific problem is the following page, which links to various products.

http://www.globalsecurity.ie/products.html

I'm not sure how to create this kinda content interface with the images of products linking to the actual products.

Now I have created a content type called Products with extra fields and also created a Product category with terms etc.

If you could offer any suggestions about how to do this I would be very grateful. And any other suggestions on how I should create the content within this site would be great.

Thanks
Brendan

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ghankstef’s picture

and do the rest as straight pages.

If you want the flexibility of a product content type (which make sense if you want to do things like ad eccomerce later), have a look a the views module. It lets you make lists of, well products for example as well a many other things

brendanh’s picture

i have been looking at the views module... and got it to kinda work, but I can't figure out how to list different types of products under one view...

I can list just say for instance Product type (category) - Networked product type (term) in a view. But I wanna be able to list Networked product type, standalone product type (term) and software and system type (term) in a single view, with the term heading over the individual products (as it is on the page i listed), and I can't see an option to do this.

Thanks a lot for your help...

Is this the right place to be asking this question.

ghankstef’s picture

So, you can put in a filter that only shows product types from (from cck) and also a category (taxonomy).

Maybe try to make each kind of product a taxonomy term and put that in your view as a filter too

Have a look at this screencast on views and cck: http://drupaldojo.com/lesson/module-mashups it explains it fairly well

ghankstef’s picture

So, you can put in a filter that only shows product types from (from cck) and also a category (taxonomy).

Maybe try to make each kind of product a taxonomy term and put that in your view as a filter too

Have a look at this screencast on views and cck: http://drupaldojo.com/lesson/module-mashups it explains it fairly well

NancyDru’s picture