In this chapter, we introduced some of the key ideas for managing the structure of a Drupal site. We briefly covered menu management to help provide a basic top level site navigation. Then we concentrated on employing Drupal's powerful Taxonomy system to help provide grouped lists of all of the site content according to how the content might be tagged with keywords or more specifically categorized with one or more words or phrases from fixed lists of categorizing terms. Then we looked at how you can employ taxonomy again to provide three forms of article—Article, Blog, and News—based around the basic Drupal Article content type.

We spent some time employing the powerful Views module to query the site database and building content lists based on filtering criteria and we saw how the module could be used to create both pages and blocks output. Finally, we saw some examples of the built-in formats that the Views module provides to control the markup style of its output.

In the next chapter...