By cybe on

Dear Drupal community.

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JoeCotellese’s picture

JoeCotellese commented

Well, start by reading the manual. I know that seems obvious but I had a site working in about a half a day just by pouring through the documentation. When I had a SPECIFIC problem, I first searched this web site before posting a question.

Site pages represent static web pages. Most nodes are entered as stories.

Taxonomy is exactly what you want for grouping documents into categories. I don't know why your having problems with it.

MJoyce-1’s picture

MJoyce-1 commented

True, Taxonomy is great for grouping documents, but I have not fathomed how to create a site page with only documents from specific Terms.

I think this is what Cybe is trying to achieve.

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cybe commented

Yes, figured out taxanomy...

Also; I tried Movable Type, didn

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cybe commented

I havn

cybe@drupal.org’s picture

cybe@drupal.org commented

So, building my site on drupal is going very well. It is going to take some time because I have a lot of articles to transfer from my old site, and ALOT of links to fix after that (will export the database and do many careful "replace old link with new link" and import the database back in and hope its allright).

Drupal is a great tool to work with, and if I get tired of feeding it with articles I do something else, like tweak the css files or add more RSS newsfeeds, or something else.

What I

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moshe weitzman commented

you will have to fiddle with taxonomy_select_nodes() in order to sort those pages by something other than date ... google indexes a few more pages than drupal.org. still, i agree with your analysis. the search.module lacks something at this time.

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jimbo-1 commented

I never use the drupal.org search. Using the google toolbar to "search this site" yields easily double the number of articles.
Is this a big area of future development? I know doing search properly is a _lot_ harder than writing an RSS feed module or whatever, but it's probably more important too, at least for big sites.

Boris Mann _Old Blogger.com Account_’s picture

Boris Mann _Old Blogger.com Account_ commented

The current Drupal search is adequate. I agree, larger sites need something better -- this is likely a place where a module, lets call it "advancedsearch", might come in handy (I'm not volunteering, just thinking...). Also, these large sites might want to collaborate on funding the development. Or integrating something like phpDig.



And I would have to say that fixing all the RSS stuff is super-critical. Drupal is getting lots of hype these days because of the ability of every user to have their own blog. And the output feeds need to be updated to allow RSS 1.0/2.0 and Atom...



(PS This comment is exhibiting the non-translation of line breaks error)

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Boris Mann