By briandavis on

Hi,

I am *very* new to Drupal, and I have managed to set up my site with few problems. I am curious how to set my site up such that web pages appear similar to drupal.org/about and drupal.org/handbooks.

Currently, my default page is content generated by me that has my content's title, when it was generated, and the content itself. I've noticed that the about and the handbooks sections of Drupal do not have this type of layout. In fact, I'm uncertain as to how to get a layout to look like this at all.

Second, in regard to the handbooks and about pages, how can I configure my site such that different topics can be stored in their own subdirectories?

If these questions have been asked before, I apologize for asking them again. I haven't been able to locate the answers. Perhaps I'm searching for the wrong keywords. :?

Thanks,
Brian

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Zen’s picture

Zen commented

You very likely want the book module.

-K

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behindthepage commented

Welcome and congratulations in getting this far. Pages like you have described can be created with the book module as Zen stated or the page module, both are "core" so are included in a the download of drupal. You have to go to the modules page and enable them. I would also recommend 'menu on the fly' which enables you to add alink to the menu system when you create the page.

Regards
gpdinoz
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

Regards
Geoff

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briandavis commented

Thanks for the responses. I will look into the books module.

Also, I have been looking around the forums (searching for my post, none-the-less) and came across several topics regarding the use of subdirectories.

Why I'm wanting to use Drupal:
Basically, what I have created an SDK that I have on the market, and I want to take the content of the SDK and "import" it into Drupal for easier maintenance. Now, I'm using the term "import" very loosely here as I realize it won't be that simple. However, I'm not sure how to organize it so that I can use mods in my htaccess file to redirect to the Drupal site. Would I need separate subdirectories for this?

If it would be easier to answer the question by seeing my current site, I can post an url to it; however I don't want to give the impression that I'm plugging my software here.

I guess the bottom-line question is: do I need to have subdirectories? If so, what is the easiest way to implement them?

Creating books/pages:
When I created a page, it was "promoted to the front page." This is all fine and good, but how do I get rid of the "more..." link as well as the "submitted by [user] on [date]"?

Is it possible to define specific keywords such that any time they appear, an automatic link will be generated to relating content?

Thanks again,
Brian