I just installed Drupal 4.5.0 on a $5.00-a-month linux web hosting service and the whole setup process was remarkably smooth. Now I'm going through the Drupal docs and forums trying to figure out how to create a site with the following objectives:
- The pages are mostly static but I'd like to assign certain pages to individual content maintainers.
- I'd like the login block to be discretely tucked away at the bottom of the page (in the footer?) as it's only going to be used infrequently by the page maintainers and myself.
- When a page maintainer does log in, I'd like the view/edit tabbed-menu to also be discretely in the footer so the maintainer can see the page revisions without the menu pushing the contents down the page. (I've tinkered with a copy of the bluemarine xtemplate and it seems to insist on the tabs section being in the header -- I get an error from xtemplate if I try and put the tabs section in the footer.)
- I'd like to have a home page that is not a frontpage summary of the other pages, but is a content page like the others.
- I'd like to use html templates for most pages, but some pages may need a bit of php.
Form the docs and forums I get the impression that this can be done, but I'm not sure of the "best" approach. I welcome any advice.
Thanks for Drupal. I'm really looking forward to the possibilities.
Regards,
Bill Trenker