Drupal 7.x

Hello,
I'm designing/creating a website for a mechanic, and could use some slaps in the face, and ideas on how to better suit my design for Drupal. While I've never made a Drupal website before, I've read a LOT of documentation (with a break so I may have lost some info), installed Drupal to a local test server, and have been exploring.

Hi all,

I'm hoping maybe this idea exists as a module, or maybe someone would be willing to write it?

I'm a member of a fire company (www.station31.org) and I just setup Drupal 6 for us, and converted some of our content from a Dreamweaver site.

When there is a 911 emergency in our town, our local Emergency Services Dispatch office sends out a notification/page on our audio pagers, summarizing the emergency and the location. All firefighters carry these pagers so they know when to respond.

The Dispatch office also sends out the same notifications as an SMS text message to members carrying a Cell Phone (who have registered their number with Dispatch). The text message includes fields such as:

FRM:dispatch@co.somerset.nj.us
MSG:FPF-FD:9035193:2009-05-09 08:39:50:FIRE ALARM:CRIMIANO RESD:FRANKLI-9 WOODHILL ST

Here's is a key to the above:
FRM is the email address the message was sent from (the actual "dispatch" email address depends on who at Dispatch sent the text)

MSG and everything after that, is the message. Colons (:) sometimes separate some of the fields, though they are not used consistently (see the date/time fields). Fields include:

FPF-FD - this is the abbreviation for our fire company (Franklin Park Fire-Fire Department)
9035193 - I believe this is the incident number
2009-05-09 08:39:50 - is the date and time

Has anyone figured out a way to soften the financial impact of the fast development cycle time of Drupal obsoleting expensive books over and over as each new version is released? Do any of the publishers offer update subscriptions or something?

New contract job, project in MASS

[Edit: Moved from general discussion to paid services forum: nevets]

Hello all,

If everything goes well, Drupal-powered websites will soon have interesting Semantic Web features.
I am writing slides for a LUG about the Semantic Web, and I want to very briefly mention Drupal.

So, in a few words, what are the main benefits YOU expect your Drupal-powered websites to get from the Semantic Web features?

Please use this forum thread to discuss the myspace snippets in the handbook rather than clogging up the handbook with comments.

dub