Hey all,
I'm still getting my head around drupal. I've been digging through the docs and handbooks trying to figure stuff out. I have a question on how to set things up like so:
Index page has 3 content columns. People, Music, Places. Under each column will be a few posts (if that's the correct nomenclature) outlining "What's New" under the three topic pages. Clicking on any of those posts will take you to that post. Or, clicking on the header of that column will take you to that topic's page. I will be adding and removing these posts manually.
How do I divide drupal content into multiple pages? Like, how I do post articles under People that are only visible if you go to the People page (http://www.example.com/people/), same for Music and Places. Am I misunderstanding how drupal organizes content?
I also want each page to have a certain amount of custom layout while maintaining some of the same layout as the rest of the site. My beginning understanding of themes seems insufficient to figure out if this is possible, as well.
These pages contain posts made only by us, not by the public. The public is able to post comments, though. Sometimes, I will want an article to have a custom layout within its content area (where the images and text go, etc.) Is that easy or hard to do?
I'm looking for a little guidance along what's possible and a little push on where to look to figure these things out. I'm not necessarily asking for somebody to lay it out word for word (though I won't complain if somebody does, hehe). I have a bit of experience with PHP from a hacking perspective (hacked phpbb to really customize layouts and modules, etc.) and I've been programming Actionscript for many years and am familiar with OOP, JS, XML, and HTML, so getting around in PHP isn't too tough for me.
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