Drupal 7.x

We desperately need a viable Drupal 7 photo gallery solution, or management will not allow us to use Drupal 7 for our monumental project and instead force us to use Joomla. So far I've tried a solution that requires the following plugins...

• Media
• Media Gallery
• Entity API
• Styles
• Multiple Forms

...and in the end, it doesn't work. All these modules are either dev, alpha, or beta, and apparently something just isn't ready for prime time.

I am trying to set up a D7 test installation. To learn before I do any actual conversions - I have maybe 10 accounts running on D6 (done over a couple years). So, while I am not a hotshot, I do know my way around a little...

Usually i install a new D6 system by allowing Fantastico to install on my (public) server. Piece of cake...

I have tried to install D7 two ways:

1) Download D7 from Drupal and follow directions and 2) Create 6.19 D6, get it going, then run D7 conversion from local.

Greetings!

I am looking for assistance. I've been working on a Drupal site for some time now. I haven't launched the site yet. I'm developing on a Mac, with MAMP.

Background / purpose:

I'm an indie musician. The site I'm building will be, primarily, maintained by me. I do not plan on a registered user base. At least not at launch. The main meat of my site, and the point of this post - is a discography. I have a lengthy catalog that I want to feature on the site.

At this time I do not need to provide the ability to play audio. I hope to do that in the future. At this point I simply want a discography that provides Date, artist name/branding, album or project title, perhaps a brief description. Explained:

Date: The date of release - year, perhaps a month if known.

Artist name / branding: I've worked under different monikers over the years. Different brand names and the like.

Album or project title: Most entries in the Discography will be album titles, but there are other entries, such as a season of TV soundtrack work or some such.

Description: a brief description of the project listed.

I'm just playing with Drupal 7 right now, but I was trying to change the default behavior of the front page. In D6 you could go to the Administration->Post Settings page to change the number of posts and the default Teaser length of a post. I cannot find where to set the Teaser length for the front page.

I've found you can set the default # of posts on the front page at
sitename.com/admin/config/system/site-information

But the default teaser size for the front page isn't there.

If I edit the display settings for the article content type and change the trim size for the teaser from 600 to say 1,000,000 this does it globally. I guess this works, but what if I want a shorter teaser on a view or some where else?

All I really want to do is show the entire post on the front page unless I specifically set a teaser in the post. Anyone know how to do this in Drupal 7?

Also a question on Teasers in Drupal 7.

Hi,

I've got a content type called 'nieuws'. How can I create a node template for this content type?

'node-nieuws.tpl.php' or 'node--nieuws.tpl.php'?

When I use views to render a node the template file 'node--nieuws.tpl.php' works... However, when I load the node directly 'node/x' it doesn't work...

what's going on here?!

Pardon my Noobness as this is my first Drupal site. While there is a TON of great information here, the newness of D7 makes it sometimes difficult to determine how valid the information is when its not specifically labeled as such.. so..

I am using Drupal 7 and the provided Bartik theme.

Just so I am clear, in order to get the "children" links on a Main menu to display as drop down items of their parents, I must install a module such as NiceMenus or Superfish (or write my own).