I am considering taking a dive into Drupal. I have tried a plethora of content management systems but am still not finding exactly what I am looking for.
If anyone can answer these questions it would be greatly appreciated in that I don't want to waste my time if the following features are either non-existent or difficult to utilize.
Does/can Drupal...
1. Archive journals or articles by month as opposed to itemized topic listings?
2. Include a working gallery based upon GD version 1?
3. Include a forum that supports email notification?
4. Allow multiple journal/article categories to be viewed and categorized SEPARATELY? In other words, can I link to say...a journal about technology and view strictly the technology content then have a personal journal and view the content strictly by the content of that journal (archiving included) as opposed to all entries indexing on one page?
5. Can article submission be limited to just me without contributary content options being viewed by users who create a login to access password protected content such as the forum?
Idealistically, I am looking for a journalized content management system that will allow me to support somewhere in the neighborhood of six ongoing categories with comment capability but won't mix them all together and has a good archiving technique.
I have reviewed the features, but some of the details are unclear and are issues that have arisen with some of the other content management systems that I have tried. Most are either too multiuser based or don't include all of the features that I am looking for in an overall website (typical blog systems that lack gallery and forum features). I am currently mixing and matching content (b2/wordpress with phpbb w/ gallery and calendar plugins, etc. etc.). When it comes to implementing the design aspect of the site I am looking at a lot of work to update everything since they do not share the same themes and management schemes.