hierarchical content management

Hi there

I'm replacing our current website with a Drupal-based one. I am a Drupal newb. In some ways I'd like to use WordPress but Drupal appears to beat it hands down in terms of being a powerful CMS.

The one thing I'm struggling on (at this moment!) is the decision on how to handle the basic structure of the website - do I do it through a book? Do I use taxonomies? Or something else?

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Inspired by Taxonomy fields module.

Often it's hard to make an “universal” set of fields to describe some real-world object with single content type. Many fields in many cases will be empty or filled in by default. The alternative is to make a lot of “pre-defined” types, but there are no useful tools to organize them and associate with a custom logic.

What solutions have people had most success with in creating hierarchical sites with Drupal? In my experience, users don't find the 'Menu settings' section on the node edit form at all intuitive.

Among different approaches I've seen are:

• Book module
• Taxonomy menu
• Node hierarchy

Cheers,

Alex.

The basic notion is to extend the current Node Hierarchy module functionality.