Hi all, I am quite new to Drupal (4.7), and in fact any 3rd party CMS solution/framework... though have quite some experience with PHP, MySQL and developing db apps and CMS manually from scratch.
I decided to redo a site I had written from scratch (basic CMS, php/mysql) to Drupal to add LOADS of new features which my small-scale CMS didnt have, after a week of reading tons of material, and redoing the site with Drupal about 10 times using different methods of implementation, I still am quite unclear about some stuff and have some questions.
Now I know there is no RIGHT way to do this, but i would just like the opinion of experienced Drupal users in what method they would use to implement the scenario I have, and if they see any potential pitfalls of the methods I chose (which i am sure there are many).
Basically it is a site for a small record label which has:
- a few Artists (bands, singers etc.).
- news (which can be generic, or related to one or more artists)
- merchandise (which can be generic, or related to one or more artists)
- events (which can be generic, or related to one or more artists)
- forums, contact, etc. etc.
So now I have my site setup so I can add/edit artists, news, merchandise and events (i have the contrib modules: ecommerce, event, flexinode, image, img_assist and views installed, plus some other misc stuff like shoutbox, tinymce etc.).