Hi,
First time I did a test install of Drupal last year, I was left confused by many of its arcane methods, to be honest. But here I am again.
I want to create a site on which the majority of content is brought in by RSS from multiple news sources. I want users, then, to be able to rate and respond to those news stories.
* First, I'm confused about Drupal's generation categories/taxonomies/terms/vocabularies. In simple terms, how can I create a site structure that is split into sections, each of which has its own subsections, ie. Sport > Soccer?
* How can you ensure the news aggregator is effectively the front page?
I've discovered the news aggregator module, of course. However, I can't see ways to do exactly what I want to do. In fact, the news aggregator seems rather limited...
* I see how you can create aggregator categories, but how can you ensure categories are shared between the aggregator and the rest of the content? After all, news aggregator content is the majority of my content, but I also want people to be able to post their own content with corresponding categories (and to go to a single destination to see that category with content from both sources).
* I want each RSS item to belong to multiple categories.
* I want to have each RSS item displayed on its own permalink page, and not simply link right out to the source. Because I want to put other information on that permalnk page, ie. conversation in reply, voting, rating, and keep the traffic on my site for as long as possible before the link out.