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Greetings fellow EEtites (that’s folks who belong to the tribe of EE) 😊

I have this jazz radio 247 which I’m going to re-do with EE. It will be as a sub-domain installation..

As you can see, I have entries from June 06 to May of 07.

My Questions:

Should I set the years, in this case ‘06 and ‘07 as two weblogs? And if so, would the individual month issues be as categories of these years?

I have a lot more questions. As you’ll see there are several authors.. Once I get going I want some small bio and other articles by the author to appear on their article’s page and so on.. I guess relationships. But I’ll cross that bridge later…

I’m open to all suggestions and structure ideas you may have as if you were doing this project.

I thank you.

Fernando

Date handling is built right in into EE, no need to use separate weblogs there.

Thanks Ingmar,

Because the above site is already being hosted as its own domain, and I plan on turning it as a subdomain later, is it possible to create a weblog on my existing EE installation, assign categories and so on, and when finished with design and content, then set up the subdomain and insert the path.php and the index.php with the appropriate variables pointing to that weblog?

Do I make sense?

Also, does it make sense to just have one weblog and create cagetogories named after the months and then limit the content output on the home page to that month/category?

Thanks,

I think you can realize your plans, as you thought it and of course does it make sense. But EE handles dates as Ingmar said it, so i think you don’t need use month-categories… you can limit the entries also per month.

is it possible to create a weblog on my existing EE installation, assign categories and so on, and when finished with design and content, then set up the subdomain and insert the path.php and the index.php with the appropriate variables pointing to that weblog?

Yes. The first step is always to figure out the structure of the content and get that content inputted into the CMS. Then, you can design templates using your current installation of EE, and then “move” them over to the subdomain later.

Also, does it make sense to just have one weblog and create cagetogories named after the months and then limit the content output on the home page to that month/category?

It seems like you might be making this a bit harder than it needs to be:

In Joomla, everything is based on “sections” and “categories” of information. Joomla is very confining in this way. EE does not place limitations or impose structure on the information in weblogs. Rather, you can do whatever you want with that information.

So, in Joomla, it looks like you have generated the various issues of your magazine using Joomla’s sections.  In ExpressionEngine, it is not necessary to structure your weblogs this rigorously.  When you input the various articles, you will use the “publish date” of the weblog post to assign a date to each post. Then, you can easily use EE’s blog archiving features to sort those posts by month, year, day, etc.

This is the statement that caused my lightbulb moment: In Joomla, the data is STORED according to its intended presentation. (Articles in an issue of a magazine are in a rigid section for that issue.) In EE, the data is stored all in one place, but PRESENTED according to its intended presentation. (All your posts will be in one big “magazine” weblog, but you will be able to divide them up using templates when you present them to your users.

Does that make sense?

Dear Mike,

Thank you so very much for your input… This is what I was looking for.. I will continue on the project and at some point will come back for more help.. Thanks to all that contributed and should you visit the site above, and get any ideas on how to structure, feel free to advice..  I started with EE a couple of years ago this month.. Got scared and went back to Joomla.. This time I’m sticking with EE and figure it out. I’ve seen some wonderful sites created with EE and I should be able, with this forum’s help and self-commitment to accomplish something good..

Thanks again,

Fernando