Minor help wanted for the new Finchley Community website

ampers's picture

First of all the bad news, but it isn't all really bad.

We have established a community Newspaper called The Finchley Arrow which is manned by volunteers who also pay their own expenses but please don't let our glorious politicians find out. We won't take advertising so there are little funds available. A few of us including me, are over seventy, so as you can imagine, Drupal is a little difficult for me, but fortunately we have the help of a younger man :-)

We are now embarking on Phase Two of our project of trying to change a London dormatory town into a more  friendly community.

We have started to learn Drupal and our journalist Chris Lockie is doing a fine job at http://www.finchleycommunity.com/

What I am looking for is a friendly expert who I can email from time to time to ask a question which will only require a yes or no answer. A simple thing but can save us hours of time searching. You see, our problem is we are having to learn whilst we go live with the website.

The sort of question is, "If we have tabs along the top, and a contents square down the left, is it possible for each tab to call a different contents square?" And you would say yes, or no, and if yes, we would start to search all our manuals to find out how.

This would probably only apply to someone who believes always in giving a little back to the community. If you are one of thos people please contact me at ampers on gmail.

Andrew Ampers Taylor

PS Finchley comprises of N2, N3 and N12

websesame's picture

Ahem :"If we have tabs along

Ahem :

"If we have tabs along the top, and a contents square down the left, is it possible for each tab to call a different contents square?"

Andrew, as long as the square fellas don't mind being called that name ;yes !

But looking at an alternative meaning of your question , blocks (a.k.a squares)  may be created from content and the content also given menu links(a.k.a tabs) . so I guess  tabs may call  contents squares Foot in mouth

Feel free to email me your questions. I promose not to get you angry.

timi [at] websesame [dot] com

ampers's picture

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Thanks Timi, on the strength of your reply we have found out how to do that.

We may go and purchase a complete package to avoid the learning delay, and Chris can learn Drupal quite successfully as a maintenance programmer/developer.

Robert Castelo's picture

Open Publish

Have you looked at Open Publish for your newspaper?

http://openpublishapp.com

Drupal Gardens is also worth looking at:

http://www.drupalgardens.com/

websesame's picture

Oh yes , Openpublish is

Oh yes , Openpublish is absolutely fantastic.

BOZMAN's picture

another doddery old un

hi andrew,

i'm also the wrong side of sixty, and i like your concept. you can certainly ask me for help. cannot guarantee success, but i  will certainly try.

regards,

eric

 

aka bozman

Great minds you have here..

Great minds you have here.. People over the age of 70 and coding, what a blast! Kudos! - Fel Gabriels - Millionaire Mind - Reviewer