Drupal 8.x

Hi Folks,

Looking for advice on modules / approaches to solve a need.

Background:

I am building an artists site, where artists can sign up and have a "space" for themselves. Only they can modify and contribute to the content within their spaces. The spaces will contain, basic information about the artist, and allow them to create galleries where they can include any number of paintings or whatever they create including information about each.

People can then search for artists or paintings or whatever and visit the individual artists "space".

I need to build a feature in a Drupal 8 site with an area where users of the site can browse a drive shared from a windows server. This is for an intranet site built on the Drupal 8 Open Social distribution. I need users to be able to browse the drive real time with files, folders, etc.

Is there anything like that available open source? If not what should I be looking to do? What is the Drupal way, and how would you go about getting started achieving this?

• Currently I am using Drupal8 - Commerce-2.x version, where I am working on the functionality of the Addtocart button programmatically.
• But I am unsuccessful.
• In my custom module of form_alter, I declared the namespace(use Drupal\commerce_cart\Form\AddToCartForm) and try to render any public function values($v = new AddToCartForm; $value = $v->getBaseFormId();).
• My total product variations get hidden and throws error(ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function Drupal\commerce_cart\Form\AddToCartForm).

Background. Long term Drupal user. Very familiar with Drupal 6 and 7 and Drush.

This is my first Drupal 8 site and first time using Composer.

I originally set the site up with a simple download of the archive from DO. I extracted to local dev environment (MAMP) and started configuration.

I was not using Composer. I had to add Composer to allow me to install a library.

Hello,

I would like to use dynamic and static content on a page in Drupal. On the top of the page I would like to have a slideshow with news and at the bottom of the page a static "about me" section.
I'm using a slideshow module wich came with my theme.

My questions are:

-What is the best way to do it? Is there a way without custom PHP files?
-How do I do a 3 column layout for the "about me" section without just writing custom css code for the page?

Cheers

Drupal 8 seems to have very clunky / slow Menu creation and management. I am wondering if there is a D8 module that makes the process easier / faster?