Display paginated list of custom entries

Question

I have an old hand-coded site for my book club that I would like to migrate to Drupal. Most of the content is static, but there is one part of the site that lists our previous books and meetings (see link or image below). Note a few things:

• Text + images
• Toggle between "show all" and "show recommended"
• Although the current site has no pagination, that is desirable
• Desirable to have a way to import current list (e.g., via CSV)

What would be an appropriate mechanism to handle this in Drupal? I guess Drupal 7 is preferred, as that is the current version.

Answer 1

If I were you, I'd proceed in that way:

• Export as CSV your existing data
• Install and configure your Drupal 7 (if you are new to Drupal, please read tutorials, documentation, and tutti quanti)
• Download Feeds Import module that will allow you to create nodes with your CSV data
• Create a content-type "Book" with all the fields you need (they must match with the CSV fields).
• Configure Feeds Importer to import correctly your data (Read the documentation to be sure)
• All your books will be automatically imported.
• Download Views module that will allow you to make customs lists of books (sorted according to what you want). That also easy to manage pagination.

Good work and I hope it helped :-)