General discussion

We would like to share our experiences with other CMSs from newbie point of view.

For loyal users of all sorts of CMSes out there, please do not regard this as flames :)

For a start:

1. Drupal has excellent categorization of content.

Some websites have nice contents, but poor organization. Others well organized, but poor content, or look boring and repetitive.

Drupal enables you to lump together many formats (images, pages, story, flexinode, forum topic, webform) in one category, instead of restricting contents according to their formats.

Example: if you have an outdoor sports website, you can make categories based on sports, then post articles and upload images into their rightful category (E.g. mountainbiking will never mix with kayaking right?)

In Drupal, it is the TAXONOMY module which is default, and a newbie just have to learn how to make the most out of it.

2. Human friendly URLs.

Descriptive, more attractive URLs, and readable by human, easy to remember.

In Drupal, it is called URL Alias, or Path Alias.

This is even friendlier to you as the admin. For example, if you want to access your sites statistics, you type `admin/logs/referrers', or `guestbook', or the search results page `/search/node/find+suff'. You can easily bookmark admin sections with your browser.

For example, if yu want to showcase your eStore site somewhere, e.g. mountainbike but you have many types of sports products, it is appropriate to put link directly to your `mountainbike' section, if you want to get your link approved by a mountainbike community site.

Which theme make better use of the new features in 4.7?

I am deciding which theme to use and modify for my site.

1) How you add images to your pages? via html img scr? Or, modules?

2) What modules do you use?

3) Where do you save images/media files?

If you install drupal in a directory, do you save your images files in a directory inside Drupal's directory or is it better to save them outside Drupal's directory?

4) When you delete a page, how do you make sure that any images in that page get deleted also?

This is important for the long run to prevent having too many unnecessary images files on your server.

I just upgraded from 4.6 to 4.7 RC3, and now certain users cannot access content at all, and they only see the "welcome to Drupal" page.

The pattern does not seem to have anything to do with the settings in Access Control, since it includes both anonymous users who have permissions to access content, and a "worker" role that has permissions to do much more than that. I think what determines whether or not they can access content is if they had ever logged in on the 4.6.6.

Btw, for future reference, should this kind of thing be posted as a bug?

-Kevin

I know there is a calendar module that displays archived posts, but is there a calendar of events module? I'd like to have subscribers select a date and then see activities scheduled for that date; is this possible?

Is it possible with Drupal to limit the number of posts shown on the "front page"? I'd like to limit the front page to five or six posts of general news and then offer a list of categories (or sections) where subscribers could 'drill down' into particular areas.

Ed