Question

I’m pretty new using Drupal, and I have a doubt.

I have a category with some categories inside: Services (main category) that has child categories (books, newspapers, letters).

Each child category has an image, a title and a short description for it. I created a taxonomy, called Services, and I added the child categories as terms. (I don’t know if this is the correct way for doing this. Any suggestion will be accepted and thanked).

Now I want on home page to show something like this:

So, I want a grid view of my sub-categories on my home page with the image and the title, and when I click it, go to the sub category and show its content.

Sorry for not being more specific, but I’m really newby…

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly, your vocabulary looks like this:

[Category]
- Sub-category 1
 - term 1
 - term 2
- Sub-category 2
 - term 3
 - term 4
- Sub-category 3
 - term 5
etc.

and while you create your terms you also add a description for each sub-category term.

So, to output only first-level terms (sub-categories) you should create a page/block with Views module.

While creating a new View, be careful to choose Show: Taxonomy terms above the “Adding new view” form and select your vocabulary.

Then, in order to output only level-1 terms, you should add relations – press Advanced/ Relationships and choose Taxonomy term: Parent term. Then add new Filter criteria – Taxonomy term: Parent term with Relationship set to Parent and Operator set to Is empty (NULL)

To add description simply add new field – Taxonomy term: Term description.

All other customization (wrap title in tags, output fields as table/grid and so on) are also available in views.

I’ve not tried to add an img to terms so far, but I guess there are to ways to accomplish that: via CSS (by adding ‘background:’ property) or by using some modules such as Taxonomy Image.

PS

If it matters, all above is about Drupal 7, and I’m not absolutely sure will it work on Drupal 6 or not.