Posted by herculesksp on January 2, 2009 at 4:00am
Hi,
I have a question related to the usage of Drupal to create content. I am basically running 10-15 blogs on various topics and I would like to use a single CMS system to manage them. So I chose Drupal. Now I want to know, whether it makes sense to create different content types for each blog-topic, or just publish everything as stories with appropriate taxonomies? My requirements are as below.
1) I want to have different themes for each blog-topic.
2) I want to have separate blocks for each topic, in the frontpage, which will display the latest 5 posts in that topic.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Best Regards,
Prashanth.
PS: To understand what I am running, you can go to http://www.prashu.com
Comments
OG or multiple sites
I'd really hate to see you use different content types for each blog. I think there are better ways to go.
You could run a single site and using organic groups, with one group for each topic. I think you can choose a different theme for each topic. As for taxonomy, you could then use OG Vocabulary.
Erik Britt-Webb
drupal@ebrittwebb.com
ideas for 1 and 2
Yikes!
I would use the following modules to create this:
CCK
Views (To create a block view for each blog)
Taxonomy
ThemeKey (Allows you to change the theme based on Taxonomy)
Good luck.