Hi!
I just started moving one of my sites over to Drupal from Postnuke. Since I have gone for a manual transfer of articles (over 600 in all!) I find myself with limited time :( I have following queries and any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated.
1. Theme: After reading quite a few articles, I have the basics of theme design in drupal clear to me. Most specifically, the article that indicated how to get a different look on frontpage than the rest of the site was most beneficial. There are, nevertheless, certain questions:
a) How can I use PHPTemplate to get the following:
- Top 5 stories with excerpts
- Top 3-5 headlines (without excerpts) from certain categories. Fr instance, 5 headlines from a category called News and another from a category called Features.
- Include a image block that, when clicked, leads to an article instead of an image gallery.
2. Menu: How can I get the menu to include the taxonomy terms automatically? Or do I have to manually enter these terms.
3. URL alias: How does url aliasing work? Does it write into .htaccess or does drupal handle it internally? Also, is there a way to get urls like site.com/category/subcategory/article-name.html without having to add an alias manually?
4. Does there exist a module like Encylopedia? The idea is as follows:
a. The major terms, names of politicians mostly, need to have their own pages. Ideally listed in an alphabetic order.