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Hey,
I want to create a webpage with food recipes for my Mom. She's written a book on that topic some years ago and i thought it would be a great idea to refresh that thing, modern internet way.

Since I'm all about CMS MS in website business, I want to stick with it. But there's no fitting module (or is there?), I don't want to spend too much time developing such one, so here's my question. What what you suggest?

Basically, there'll be about 50-100 recipes at the start, 20 per category. I need word-searching, categories adding, counting positions from one category (and all recipes). Commenting would be nice, too. Pagination problem will probably come up...

I'm divided between two approaches:

• every new recipe is a new page; category is the section header.
• every new recipe is a new news article; will use category of news for categories.

Somehow i think i'm missing something - maybe people here in forum will give some hints about how to do it? Of course I want to (and can) use the 1.0.1 CMS MS, so I'm pretty fresh at that one. What do ya think? 

thanks 

I would use the News module, it is very flexible and can have templates that will show just the things you want and the categories help to put the diff. recipes on diff. pages easily.

If you do a bit more digging on the web for other food menu sites, I seem to remember they use a special format for the recipies, you might want to investigate this first and use this for your mothers recipies?

I think this is a brilliant idea for many people, I wonder how many fantastic recipies disappear because no-one recorded them. My own mother was a whizz of a chef, and the only recipies that are left of hers are the ones I can still remember.

Russ

Hello,

I woudn't use either way, even not CMSms : you need content tagging ("categories adding") and CMSms is hierachichal content management.
A recipe could be tagged by more than one category, for example : "starter" and "cold". I think a page or a news cannot belong to two categories/sections.

Content tagging, a new way of organising content ? a feature request ?

PM

Thanks guyz for discussion.

Russ - I don't want to use any special format or give my mom any specifications... It's a big success that she said OK and that she's starting using computer and internet - that was the main goal, to show her the big possibilities of internet and maybe - add one hobby to her life that's related to my job (i'm webdesigner). So it has to be easiest thing i can think of, no limitations - so plain News module, as Mark suggested, will do ok for me. I'll write some nice template and we'll start.

About content tagging - yes, Pierre - you're right. But I like CMS MS very much and I think it's so simple and easy-to-use that I want to stick with it. I'll just tell my mom to write keywords at the start of every recipe - that way a search will give my cross-reference results (i hope, hehe). The other thing i'm thinking of is back-to recipe-per-page, and this tags as keywords, different on every page. But i have to decide, and i'll go with news, cause that was my first thought

So again - thanks for your ideas. And I'll let you know how it's working when i'm done.

numer9, to keep it real simple then a recipie per pages seems a good way to go.
Russ

Numer9, how did you go with this?

Did you get the site done for your Mum?

I'd love to know if the News module worked well for your Recipes.

Cheers
WebGirl

News also lets you have child categories that could be used for say Starters with cold under it...

Hey Mark!

Happy Sunday afternoon from Downunder

I am loving the News module - using it on my own site for Articles [with sub categories], Interviews with biz people, News, and my client Newsletters.

It suits everything and is so easy to implement.  I'm thinking the recipe idea is great for so many topics - I have an art site that News module could be perfect for

My only challenge right now is, I am trying to create a list of my Newsletters, for example:

* I created a page as an introduction for Newsletters, then added a few past newsletters
* I'd like to see just the Newsletter 'title' and the one sentence 'summary', side by side, on one line, like this:
  Newsletter 15 Name : One short sentence
  Newsletter 14 Name : One short sentence
  Newsletter 13 Name : One short sentence
* I don't want to see 'More...'
* and I don't want the actual name of the Category to appear, even though that's what I've used to 'call' the Newsletters

This is the code I've used:

{news category="MyNewsletterCategoryName" item='news_title'}

I've been trolling through the forum archives, but haven't found a solution yet ... any tips, O Guru? is it in the css styling somehow?

You could make a new template with just the tag calls for what you want then put it in modules/News/templates then call it with your tag {news summarytemplate='TheNameofYourTemplate.tpl'} if you look in the help for news it gives more detail on this...

The best way I found for knowing which tag calls I wanted was to run a full news template and look at the source of the page to see how the Categories or Summary, etc. is shown/called most are wrapped in a corresponding div class, or some such call...

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh, that makes sense!

Thanks matey!