By Jeff01 on

Greetings all, looking forward to getting into Drupal, looks like it will work nice with the setup here. But, alas, I have a few questions I'm hoping are simple for some of you. :)

My first question is when a user is creating a page, I only want them to be editing the center contents of the page, say just some kind of area in the center of a 3 column organized page. Where is it that I go in Drupal to set this up? When a page gets created by the user, I want the header/footer/navigation and look and feel of the page to be applied to their created page.

And the second question is: how do I go about organizing users into their groups, so that their created content is applied only to specific sections of a site?

Like say I have

site.com/group1/
site.com/group2/
site.com/group3/

etc..

How do I setup the accounts so that when they create content, they are automatically applied to the correct area of the site? I wouldn't want a group1 user creating content for the root of the site, or any other groups section. Something like that..

Thanks in advance and for your patience. I'm off to read lots of documention while one of you kind, brave souls provides me with some help.

- Jeff

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nevets commented

In drupal users create content, not pages. The theme determines the look of each page and the placement of the content.

For organizing the site by groups I would suggest checking out the organic groups (og) module.

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Jeff01 commented

Hi nevets, thanks for the reply.

I guess I was a little mislead by 'create content > page' but I think I see what you're saying.

For the 'theme' part you mentioned I already have downloaded phptemplate theme engine, is this something that allows me to accomplish what you're saying?

And I have installed and looked over briefly (moreso now) the og module, does this allow me to restrict users to creating content as I specified above (ie. site.com/group/) ?