I have a personal webpage area, low traffic, no commercial apps, and I recently decided that I hated coding a lot of stuff myself in HTML, ASP or PHP. I'm not a super user by any stretch, although I can usually get stuff to work through brute force, stupid luck, or determination. So I looked around, decided I needed a CMS, liked Drupal and somehow miraculously got it to install on my virtual hoster.
But as I'm playing with things, I want to get the "structure" right from the beginning. Under my old website I had a lot of subdomains, and a perfectly ordered series of directories:
1. www.mydomain.ca/ mapped normally
2. books.mydomain.ca mapped to www.mydomain.ca/books
3. movies.mydomain.ca mapped to www.mydomain.ca/movies
etc.
Each of the subdomains was really just a sub-page, no change in theme, etc. and I'm intending mainly the same, I think, for the new site. Do I even need subdomains? I toyed with rotating logos for the subpages, etc. But for my book reviews, I can see having several different "index" pages:
- sorted by author name
- sorted by rating
- sorted by date, etc.
Is the best way to do that through a "book" option where all my reviews are pages? Do I need to even worry about the books/movies/etc subfolders anymore or does everything get stored as node/#####?