Taxonomy and Permalinks

[zourtney]

Randomland's URLs have changed a lot over the years. As such, the internet is littered with (at least 2 or 3) dead links. Putting up permalinks with our current system should be very workable. Here's a few "classics;" propose your own.

Suriboka pages (home) - http://randomland.net/motors/suri and/or http://motors.randomland.net/suri
The Tempo Story (home) - http://randomland.net/motors/tempo and/or http://motors.randomland.net/tempo
The Forums - http://randomland.net/forums and/or http://forums.randomland.net
Photo Gallery - http://randomland.net/gallery and/or http://gallery.randomland.net
    note: might want to use "photo" in addition to "gallery"
    another note: permalinks to photos are another huge problem we have
About Page - http://randomland.net/about

Feel free to make some suggestions, I'm sure there are others...

The following have been completed as of 09-24-2009

Page Title		Permalink URL
Home Motors S-10 Blazer Stories Francine Stories Courtney's, Page 1 Courtney's, Page 2 Courtney's, Page 3 Courtney's, Page 4 Courtney's, Page 5 Courtney's, Page 6 Suriboka Recreation and Entertainment Lightsabers Four Foot Padding Lightsaber Three and a Half Foot Padding Lightsaber Wooden Lightsaber Tech Opinion Reviews		http://randomland.net http://randomland.net/motors http://randomland.net/motors/blazer http://randomland.net/motors/francine http://randomland.net/motors/francine/part1 http://randomland.net/motors/francine/part2 http://randomland.net/motors/francine/part3 http://randomland.net/motors/francine/part4 http://randomland.net/motors/francine/part5 http://randomland.net/motors/francine/part6 http://randomland.net/motors/suriboka http://randomland.net/rec http://randomland.net/rec/lightsaber http://randomland.net/rec/lightsaber/four-foot http://randomland.net/rec/lightsaber/three-and-a-half-foot http://randomland.net/rec/lightsaber/wooden http://randomland.net/tech http://randomland.net/opinion http://randomland.net/reviews

[Nick]

I have set some things up with "aliases" as drupal calls them. I don't know if it will do multi-level aliases with / in them. But I am sure there is some way to do that.

But I have done the lightsaber pages to start with and all the main links on the current side menus.

[Nick]

For example the car-bashing 101 page is "http://randomland.net/BeaterCar101"

[zourtney]

Are the lightsaber pages missing all their pictures too?

Top-level links are ok for old stuff. It seems the dead lightsaber page link was /lightsabers.php or something. I would, however prefer to find some way to do it multi-level as well. Something like /category/page-name would be fine for most things.

[Nick]

That works for me. I like organization, makes things easy to find and maintain.
So for example we would have /motors/bumper-buddy-revival or something?

And lightsabers.php is now an alias for the lightsabers landing page. Ginda gimpy but it works. And if its a php page then it was a pre-wordpress link and so quite old.

[zourtney]

The rudely promised music section at "http://randomland.net/downloads/music"

[zourtney]

Multi-level aliases are a go in drupal. Piece of cake!

Check out the Francine pages --> http://randomland.net/motors/francine
I aliased the story pages to /motors/francine/part

• . I like it; it seems to work well.

[Nick]

Too bad the bread crumbs don't seem to realize this.. I wonder how one fixes that.

[zourtney]

Hmmm, you're very right on that. I don't know what's up with that...

I enabled the "category" module and was trying to play with that for a little bit this morning. Have you tried that one? It seems like what we want, but might not offer anything we don't already have set up. And I'm not good enough with those Drupal views to know how to query for stuff in specific categories...making it entirely useless.

[Nick]

My take on the category module (its not a standard one) is that its just another way to do the same thing. Using "category" terms rather then taxonomy terms. But I am not completely sure. 

[zourtney]

Yeah. I was thinking it was cool until I realized it is essentially the same, but with a dedicated admin page. So it's probably not worth too much to us.

I think part of my confusion lies in that we have it set up so "sections" do not apply to blog posts. I've been using the blog content type for casual news-like posts (ie the recent Courtney's Crappy Music post which is on the front page right now. I have been using book pages for multi-page stories like Francine. I have been using "page" (I think it's called) for simple static stuff like that MonoDevelop theming howto.

Maybe I'm using these wrongly. I can't sleep

[Nick]

I think the type "story" is the default for casual posts and what not.

By default, a page entry does not allow visitor comments and is not featured on the site's initial home page.

A story has both those by default. I was just going off the descriptions given by the drupal admin pages. The main difference with the "blog" type is that it automatically shows up under your personal blog, as though you were making mention of a personal note or story. Its all basically semantics as they can all be made to behave like one another. 

[zourtney]

Updated the first post to reflect links we've set up within the past week or two. I'd like to see these become the foreverstandard...unless someone objects.

[Nick]

I like.

[zourtney]

I suppose we could make a static drupal version of that manual site map, but site maps are so twenty-oh-three.