3 "areas" of the same site?

By capitalD on 13 Jul 2006 at 15:50 UTC

I am investigating a website solution, but I'm fairly new to CMSes in general and never used Drupal before.

Here is what the client says he wants :

"Main Home" (will have "about us", "contact us", that sort of thing)
will have Theme1

"Product Descriptions Home" (will have textual descriptions of products, like a corporate brochure but detailed, because they aren't supposed to sell outside their assigned area for some things, so don't want to sell this stuff online)
will have Theme2
Maybe even multiple themes, depends.... different themes for different product lines?

"Ecommerce Home" (will sell some small stuff online)
will have Theme3

Mind you, Themes 1-3 can't be all that different, got to always remember that we are in the same site after all. Don't want any jarring differences. But menus have to be different, maybe different color schemes for different parts of the site.

Is this possible, and if so, briefly: How?

Thanks.

Comments

Maybe some lurking with

pb8 commented 13 July 2006 at 16:53

Maybe some lurking with $conf['theme_default'] = $someothertheme.

And or some other virtual host, that the file:
/sites/default/settings.php/
handle.

(I haven't done it though)

Two options

Permanently Undecided commented 13 July 2006 at 23:12

You can definitely have different themes for different "areas" with little effort in at least two ways: with the sections module or the taxonomy theme module.

Check out Micheal's site.

sepeck commented 13 July 2006 at 23:27

Check out Micheal's site. He has an article on what he did for his site on it somewhere.
http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/subjects/drupal_0

Also, keep an eye on the IBM series on open source CMS using Drupal. If you look at their design doc, it indicates that it will be doing something very much like that as well so it will be interesting to see what method they are using.

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