Before you start

Looking out for a best practice to build a site with a product catalogue which should look similar to that:

We've got about 80 products (with an own name) each product has several (lets say 6) variants.

Each product has characteristics like several images and text blocks and pdfs attached and so on which probably would be done using CCK and a view to display the cck node - so far so good. Now when dealing with the lets say 400-500 product pages (including the variants) which can be structured in an hierarchical order Taxonomy pops up right away. However even though (maybe because) we have build a couple of drupal sites already we know that there are potential pitfalls which we want to avoid where it comes to displaying these product category pages which don't only display a list of nodes/products but also some additional text, a picture to each product and a menu created from taxonomy terms.

Here is the desired structure again:


* Product Pages
o Product group 1 ( Category name )
+ Product 1 ( Name )
# Product variant 1 ( Name - Number x1 )
# Product variant 2 ( Name - Number x2 )
# Product variant 3 ( Name - Number x3 )
# Product variant 4 ( Name - Number x4 )
# Product variant 5 ( Name - Number x5 )

Hi,

Sorry for a rather basic question; I'm confused by the array of CMS types, and I don't know which is for me. I'm making a news site. I need to have:
1:a front page dominated by the biggest story of the day, with a picture and a teaser (short text excerpt)
2: also on the front page, a list of the most recent articles in each of 2 sections: news and business, possibly with teasers
3: also on the front page, sections for permanent "feature" articles (travel, food & drink, etc)
4: a way to search by keyword
5: very quick and easy authoring for articles with photos and text -- I spend most of my time generating content, and don't want to have to spend a lot of time editing it to look good online. I prefer a fast system to one that gives me a lot of control over design of each particular article. I like to copy and paste out of Word, add a picture, and go.
6: banner advertising

I would also like to have
1: searching of certain sections by other means (not just keyword) -- e.g. the ability to display restaurant reviews by location, price, cuisine, etc
2: the ability to update certain parts of the site directly from other sites -- e.g. have the weather automatically imported from weather.com
3: a list of the most popular pages/posts at the moment.

i have installed wamp, now where i can get a drupal version for windows?
thankss

I am having few wordpress blogs but now I feels it was a mistake to make them in wordpress as I am looking to add lot of features on the site and feels drupal should have been the first option. Now since I do get lot of traffic on the blogs, I need to make sure that the URL's and TITLES of the post will remain same as all the content of the blogs.

I have a recipe site - www.e-rcps.com - 450 recipes, many with pictures - is Drupal a good CMS for my site? Can I achieve a similar look by generating a Drupal template? Should I be making stories, or books, or pages. I would like visitors to be able to comment on recipes, as well as forward page URL or entire recipe by email.

Thanks for any feedback!!

Peter
e-rcps@acrocom.com

Greetings,

I want to use Drupal to build a website for me and some colleagues for compiling quotes, notes, and resources pertaining to the academic matter that we study. The idea is that after a few years we'll have a great resource of good quotes, notes, etc. categorized in a useful way that is easy to browse.

I'm wondering if just using the taxonomy module would work or if there are any other ideas.