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Hey all,

New to EE and wondering the best method to accomplish let’s say the following:

I want the main navigation to be Home | Videogames | Boardgames | Cardgames

I want each “Games” section (the big Q here is: are these Channels or Categories or Template Groups or x?) to have entries very much like tumblr (Audio, Link, Text, Image).

I’ve seen a few posts on how to tumblr-ize EE and they focus around each content-type being it’s own Channel, and that seems like the only way to have custom fields for each type, but it feels like I want to use EE backwards to how it’s setup.

j.,

Luckily enough I remembered someone had blogged about just that! - http://shapingthepage.com/journal/how-to-build-a-simple-tumblr-blog-with-expressionengine

Of course there’s nothing wrong with using one set of custom fields but just filling in the ones you want for any particular entry?

Ah but the thing TUMBLR does is change the CSS formatting based on the content-type.

I’ve seen the article you mentioned but wouldn’t )in my case) that result in:

videogames-image
videogames-link
videogames-text
boardgames-image
boardgames-link
boardgames-text
etc..

that’s a lot of channels potentially.

I think based on what I’ve read I need one channel per “section” , and I’ll just have the same fields for each “content-type” but only fill-in what’s needed, and render each differently by using categories for “link , image, video, text” .. or tags maybe?

oy.

Seems to me you could have channels by content type and then assign categories.  Some conditionals in the template could apply different formatting based on channel & / or category.