Drupal 6.x

Noob with Drupal but not CMS in general - have reviewed v5 vs v6 and plumped for the latter because it seems like getting the desired look and feel for the 2-3 of sites I need to build will be easier and it will be a more suitable way of learning the product. Now of course I observe that a great many modules are not 6.x ready including CCK etc. I am happy to hack some bits of PHP etc to get what I need but don't wnat to spend days writing modules which are going to emerge anyway from more stable histories. Plus more seems to be happening than with other CMS products I could mention.

In the light of this is there an easy way of doing the following:

One of my site owners wants to be able to list things (these could be poems, books etc) and she wants to be able to have a page (or pages) on her site which effectively list the titles and/or teasers of these items much as the "promote to front page" stuff does. These subpages would ideally not be included in the main Navigation menu structures as they may contain a few dozen items.

So the menu structure should be something like:

Home
My Poems
About
Contact

hello,

I am thinking of taking one database with several linked tables, and defined relationships, and convert it to drupal. Is it possible? My first thought is that the CCK module would be the right choice, but I am not sure if Drupal would be the best tool to begin with -

Anyone here who has done anything like this?

I'd appreciate your insight.

Is the syntax and code standards for writing custom service calls for the Services module still the same in 6 as it was in 5?
I'm coming up on some problems here
I need some help feeling more confident about switching to 6 atm. Cheers in advance.

It's actually pretty baffling to me that Drupal 6 went out the door without CCk, any real access control and the views module. Without them Drupal is much less useful than it coudl be (obviously). Almsot unusably so.

Here is what I need to do... let me know if this sounds right.

* Users can be in multiple roles (these will be different educational class enrollments)

* Each class will have one or more "books" (the Drupal type) of content

* Some book pages will have audio, video or images

* Each class will have one or more Forum sections

Hi, all
the module http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi looks great for import newsml/nitf xml content. but it's needs some tweaking. ie. auto import by cron and xslt transformations support (havent tested relations (with images) or anything not looked at the code). this module isn't supported by drupal 6. i dont know what drupal 7 has in store for us but i read some about data api/oop.

Hi,

I wonder, does drupal allow to create static pages as well, or just news / articles? And if drupal allows for static pages, can someone direct me to a website where static pages are used?

Thanks