My drupal 7 site mainly consists of a main menu with 5 entries, each linking to a more or less simple page. These 5 pages have a lot of common fields, simply some fields are slightly different. Normally, i would have to create a content type and an actual node to accomplish this — but since there is only one actual node for each of the content types, it feels like an overkill to me. One alternative is to handle all fields in one singe node, separating the 5 areas in the edit-form by fieldgroup-tabs, and generate the pages with views … Downside of this approach: instead of using display suite to do the theming, i would have to theme using views-fields, which is a pain.
The node field module, which allows you to add custom extra fields to single drupal nodes doesn’t work for me, since i am using entity-reference fields, which aren’t supported.
So what’s your best practice?
(Annotation: The content isn't very often updated and the content of the fields hasn't to be used in tokens, but i have to use a more or less "rigid" field structure in order to make editing content an easy no-brainer for the content maintainers. using „wide open“ WYSIWYG textareas isn’t a way to go, because maintainers will alternate often and will have only little knowledge about the project.)
