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Hello fellow EE users,

Before fully jumping into a commercial licence of EE, I wanted to hear from the experts.  Judging from responses on this board, almost anything is possible with EE, so I won’t ask if my problem is solvable. I want to ask, however, how the pros here would build and maintain our website as quickly and efficiently as possible. Using suggested add-ons like Structure or Playa (anything, really) is very welcome.

I have attached a diagram of how, roughly, I need to set this up. What’s best way to get this done? Please see the attachment. Would Structure help me build this? Is Playa better?

Just some background: we are building a stock market research website. We cover various companies across different sectors. A story on Apple, for instance, will show up on the Homepage. It may even be a feature story. It will also show up on the Technology sector page where all stories related to that sector will be found. Not only that, the Apple story will show up on the author’s page. With around 500 companies and over a dozen industries. Each company we cover will also have its own page with a stock chart and data table.

Thank you very much. I would really appreciate the advice 😊
Jose

ps. the attachment can also be seen here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6922088/EE-mockup.png

Hi Jcbonifacio,

I looked at your attachments. I don’t there is any need of using complex relation so no need to think about Playa.

EE manage channel categories very well. you can manage categories for article type. these are many add-on which for category managements and also for working at category sent into page URL.

As you mentioned there would be around 500 companies so it would be better to create a channel for company and use relationship with article and company.

like

Channel 1 for articles :
> having categories for article type [liek IT, Medical]
> relationed company [managed via relationship]

Channel 2 for companies
> sector category

I would like to suggest you structure module managing navigation and other stuffs like meta tags etc.

Best Regards,

I’d agree - that’s a pretty simple site, really.

I’d even suggest that Structure would be overkill.  I’d only go there if you had a large amount of more “Static” content and navigation >3 levels deep.

Will 1 news story always = 1 company?  If you get stories where you need to connect it to >1 company then I might look at Playa for that rather than a native relationship field.

One news story may be related to more than one company. For instance, a telecom industry article will relate to the telecom and technology industry page, as well as Verizon, AT&T, etc. You may be right about Playa. For the moment, I’ll play around without it.

Thank you for the tips! I will try to Structure my test website as you suggested this weekend.

Much appreciated,
Jose