Well, I keep thinking we need 'Now what' articles. People familiar with web design and mid sized to large corporate sites know what to do to build sites. Folks new to Drupal and CMS's in general get stuck. Sort of a 'Now what' happens. I have been suggesting a configuration guides series for a while but have been to busy so we're going to try this. Pick a target and see how many people's different solutions can hit it. This will show different strategies and how people use different modules from within Drupal to accomplish similar effects. Then pick a few of the approaches and write them up for the handbook to assist those that come after us in the best spirit of Open Source. Also, if someone does some automated profile building, then these perhaps can serve as a base for that.

This weeks target is how many ways to get to a 'Corporate Brochure' type site. We start with an existing target, the goals of the Bryght guide.. Now, it's a very nice guide but when I first read it, I thought, I'd do it differently. Of course, I hadn't thought of using the book module that way either.

So, here's the target.

• An About Page
• A Contact Us Form
• A Products (or services page)
• A simple front page with two paragraphs about your company and contact information plus a sidebar with links on the right or left which link to headlines from your five latest news articles
• A news page with news articles about press releases, events and news.

However long you want, but I'm looking for at least the basics here: What modules you would use and and an outline of how. Any module, core or contrib. Please identify core vs contrib modules. If you think about it toss in why you went with that approach and any configuration options you think important.

EDIT: changed title from "A challenge for site configuration ideas" to "Site Configuration Challenge: Corporate brochure" since speck wants to run this as a series. Nice work sepeck. -- kbahey