If anyone has done the following, or something similar, I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on the best approach.
My site will contain news articles, and ideally I’d like the site to have the following functionality for each news article:
1. The option to feature the article on the site’s home page by showing one thumbnail image and the first 300 or so characters of the full article.
2. A page that presents the full text of the article, some additional attributes such as title and author, a featured image near the beginning of the article, and an optional gallery of images that are associated to the article somewhere else on the page.
3. The option for site visitors, including unregistered users, to post comments about the article and have the comments appear below the full text of the article.
4. Assignment of the article to one or more categories so that in the future, when an archive of articles exists, I can expose some interface for browse/search by category.
From my initial hands-on experience and reading, it seems like the text/html, feedback comments, repository, and a third-party image gallery module would all be a part of this.
I need help understanding how to have instances of all these modules point to a particular article, so that the brief intro on the home page is associated to the full article, which is then associated to the comments and images for that article.
Thanks very much to anyone willing to share tips on how to approach this.
Jim