Post installation

Hey

I was just curious about the different ways that people make their Drupal sites look non-Drupal. This is for 4.7 installations. I know that the basic answer is "use themes." But there's so much flexibility there, that I'm wonder what ways people are using.

For better or worse, I am using CCK and views a lot. I'll set up a content type, then create a node file for that content type. I've stripped out bread crumbs and show tabs only to people of a certain roles. Then I place the 'view' version of each field in my HTML.

Pros: I get very exact control of what my users are entering, and how that data is formatted.

Cons: I have this weird feeling that I have broken the proper Drupal flow. I'm not even showing the $content variable, for example. I'm nervous that I've set myself up for Drupal Heartache. I installed Contemplate which let me easier format the teaser with those same 'view' versions of fields -- so that let me take control of the RSS, search results, teaser view formats. I can't get pagination or Taxonomy Redirect to work, but I'm managing pretty well.

I have use http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/page of drupal handbook and found that it help me lot to insert dynamic pages of my site and convert them to drupal node, now if i have set drupal site locally in a folder called Drupal and have created a main page node with url as
http://localhost/Drupal/?q=node/6. This is my main page and i want to run this page in my browser.

I am hoping someone can help me. I am developing a site with product data that will display teaser data by product category with links to more individual product info. From the individual product page I want users to be able to post their reviews of the products. I have a number of product characteristics beyond just the description (model, mens/womens, etc) that I'd like to use to enable discrete search functionality or an ability to narrow the teaser list. What modules should I use? I find Drupal's breadth and depth of modules a little confusing at times.

I think it should be a basic task - but I can't find the way to do it.

I just want a simple block listing all TERMS in a vocabulary. Not nodes linked to a term: just the terms itself.

Hi,