Dizkus

I'm new to PostNuke, and so far I am very impressed with the speed that pages render, etc. I'm converting from Drupal and I am having trouble grasping a few of the concepts.

To start with I just want to set up a site with a few static pages. I develop software and I want to make a site to distribute it with your typical pages such as:
- Home
- Download
- Features
- Screenshots
- Order
- Support / Contact Us

I'm looking for some tutorials on the basic concepts of setting up content as described above? Maybe I'm choosing the wrong CMS for this purpose altogether?

If anyone can point me in the right direction, modules to download, etc that would be great.

Thanks :)

Welcome to PostNuke, Zarfius!

First of all: If you are just starting to learn to use PostNuke you should start with .8RC3 - It's pretty different from the .7 stuff and it will soon be released stable. So there's no use for you to learn the old stuff. But as often in times of transitions, not every module already works as supposed. So be patient with "us"

I think you chose the right CMS. PostNuke is a modular system that AFAIK works only slightly different from way Drupal works. You can find a lot of stuff at our central development platform: NOC

And we here will help you find fitting modules for your needs. But I am afraid, that I am not 100% sure, what you mean with some for your keywords: "Home" - you can put any content you like onto the homepage of you PostNuke site. I think Drupal mostly displays news there. You could try the old News module from the Full .8RC3 package and install Scribite for the WYSIWYG-Editor.

Moreover we have Pagesetter, which is a module that allows you to put together your own "module" - add some DB fields and it generates input forms and display templates that you can use as a basis for your own output layout. It's not really a beginner module. But as you claim being a developer it shouldn't be too complicated for you. Pagesetter in .8 needs the Topics module from the Full package installed. (legacy stuff )

Features: You should take a look at "Content". A nice new module for the creation of plain articles. it uses content elements like text, headings, quotes, google maps, videos (images, if you install Mediashare and topics) to build the pages.

Downloads: There's a Downloads module with a lot of features. For simpler needs you can also point&click a solution with Pagesetter.

Contact: Formicula

Screenshots: A gallery? Check out Mediashare.

Order: What are you going to sell?

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Welcome to the Community too, Zarfius!

Additionally, checking the .8RC3 you'll find useful the Tour module to get familiarized with the concepts used in PostNuke. It's not a big deal: Themes for the general look and feel of your site, Modules to add functionalities/services and Blocks as widgets that complements the modules contents like the login form, users online, main menu, etc...

I think that you Hit the appropriate Framework to work!
PostNuke let you do the site that you want and also let you extend it further connecting the functionalities in the way that you preffer:

If you want to have rate-able Downloads, just install the Rating hook and 'attach' it to the Downloads module... then assign the permissions to define who's able to rate the downloads...

If you want comment-able News Articles, just install the EZComments hook and 'attach' it to the News module... then modify the permissions too (if you want, because by default the registered users can comment).

The forum that you're already using (pnForum) is also powerful for the Support section and you can customize it (through the module .htm templates) as you want. As example, look the French PostNuke Community Forum: http://www.postnuke-…g/module-Forum.html

So, we have cool stuff here
and after the 0.8 stable release i'm sure that we'll have a lot more!

Happy PostNuking!

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