By vidmarc on

I'm investigating the possibilities of using Drupal to completely upgrade my present website, which has outgrown itself and is in need of a major update.

My website (fansite) deals primarily with four cult movie directors, and it sports a home page which lists upcoming DVD releases of interest to cult movie fans.

Each of the four movie directors in tern have their own news page (so in effect there are 5 unique news home pages), with details of new and upcoming DVD releases of their movies. These director pages link to their filmographies.

I would like to add database functionality to the entire site, and add discussion forums and the ability for users to post reviews etc - and this is my question - is Drupal the software I'm looking for in order to achieve this? I like what I've seen here very much so far, and I'd really like to anybody's thoughts on this. I'm not at all familiar with the technical aspects of MySQL, which is why I though this might be a possible solution.

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wpd commented

Drupal sounds perfect for your site. YOu can probably do everything you want out of the box with minimal additional modules. (I even think there is a movie review module...)

You will have to try to comprehend taxonomy:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy
It is confusing at first, but at some point the light will click on and you will see the countless possiblities. I did not really understand how to use taxonomy until I played with it for a while.

I would start with 4.7 instead of 4.6. The beta version is stabile enough for development.

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vidmarc commented

Many thanks for the reply - I have downloaded the software and will get to work installing Drupal immediately!

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