December 4, 2008 - 10:18am
Views, Views, and more Views
I think learning the Views module will help you out quite a bit. For much of what you want to do you might want to install the Simple Views module (http://drupal.org/project/simpleviews) which will provide you with a simpler views interface for most of your views building. The first 3 things on your list can be worked out with views.
For #1 you can create a view of users. Then, filter that list by user role. If you want to add fields to users check out the profile module. You can display those in views as well.
Is there something in views that's confusing you? It's quite a powerful tool but once you get your mind around it you'll see just how much great stuff you can do.
December 4, 2008 - 5:14pm
theming views
It's really good to know that I am heading in the right direction. I am able to get everything I want displayed, just not formatted where it looks good. I have tried all the defaults, List, Grid, Table and so on. What I really need to find is either a simple template file, or a easy to understand tutorial on how-to build one. I really haven't settled on a theme for the site, most of what is out there doesn't have the look and feel I want, or doesn't seem to work properly.
(Snip URL to try to keep development work from being found google )
http://snipurl.com/75ops (Services Page)
http://snipurl.com/75o88 (Staff Page)
current page
http://www.themarriagelifeline.com/
January 22, 2009 - 3:15am
New Problem
My boss just asked me if I could make the new site interactive, and to have two sections. This project is quickly going over my head. I rally don't have much in the way of time to put into this, because I have other duties at my job that also need to be done.
First I need a section for people adults, married, engaged, or in a relationship.
Second I need a section for Youth (High School aged) I'm really not clear on the content but has to do with relationship and making good decisions I think.
I think setting up blogs where my coworkers can publish should be fairly straight forward, along with allowing comments.
I think setting up forums like GeeksAndGod is also a strong possibility, also having user profiles.
I would really like to have the site know which section you belong in when you create an account and have different blogs and forums for each user set. This however maybe way beyond of what I am able to do, time wise and just having the ability to create it. My main goal is having something that functions, and that almost turnkey to get it up and running, and still have the option having a more custom, cleaner look without much work as I learn how.
I'm really lost as to where to go, what to think about. So any advice, best practices, tips, tricks would be most helpful. One thing I know that I need to be careful of is we are federally funded so I need to be careful of what is posted, and their are likely some privacy issues that I need to be extra careful about.
Earlier this year i created my first drupal site to replace the our previous website --- which by all means was as ugly and difficult to add new content. I really did not understand drupal, or how what I was doing was totally the wrong way to do things. I just had to get a new site up in a hurry before I shot somebody. I now have a much better idea of what I need to do, to make management easier, and to try to set the ground work for when we are ready to have a more interactive site.
There are some problems that I am not sure how to tackle
http://geeksandgod.com/about/moderators with the exception that I am going to have to generate the bio as it's own content type. and the ability to specify the order.
I am really at a loss as to go about this. I have tried to get the first 3 done with CCK/Views/contenplate, but I fear that that may not have been the correct method, used the wrong settings in views/contenplate. I am really hoping to find a site, somebody that can help explain things, or find tutorials that can help me understand how-to make this site something that looks good, is easy to manage. And get some help tips in development. I'm still new to CSS/PHP, however I am pretty good with standard HTML. I'm more of a break / fix and server admin person. The site itself now is pretty static, other then a list of events, and for some events I have webform to handle online registrations.
I am running Drupal 6
Apache 2.2
MySQL 5.0
PHP 5.2