By jasonmcd on

I'm converting http://www.worldwar2database.com/ to Drupal. I'm using http://www.worldwar2databasetesting.com/ to set up the site. I have category module installed but I'm a little overhwhelmed as a three-week Drupal user. I know how to use URL aliases to have Drupal create the same web address for all the content.

However, I'm having a hard time understand how to use Drupal to create the same menu system. What I'd like to do is have categories for different WWII subjects - Midway, Normandy, Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad - and have weblinks to other websites, forums, polls, stories, etc. that would cross link to each other if they have the same category.

I've set this up several times trying to follow various tutorials I've found online. Unfortunately I'm not smart enough in Drupal to apply these lessons to my particular website.

I'm hoping that someone could look at both sites and give me an example of how to create categories step-by-step so that I can cross link different nodes to the same category. Just one example, not the whole site, would help a lot. I'm sure I could figure out the rest.

Thanks so much!
Jason

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Comments

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OpenChimp commented

Looks like a fun, HUGE project. I'd start by making a taxonomy vocabulary based on the outline of the navigation of the old site with the hierarchical structure represented there. Then as you add the pages, select the taxonomy that matches it.

If you need the links and content to be cross referenced, you'll have to insert the link (internal and external) seperately as individual nodes, which you will then apply the same taxonomy to. You can then use the Views module and a custom theme to get the links listed on the content pages.

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jasonmcd commented

I've heard that taxonomy isn't as capable as the category module, and category seems able to automatically generate menus and such. I'm just asking because I'm a newbie and I don't know - why would taxonomy be preferred over category?

Thanks
Jason