Drupal 7.x

Hi:

We're looking for a top-notch CMS Web Developer in Vancouver, Canada to help us rebuild our existing website into a CMS framework (Drupal? Joomla?).

We have the design and graphics ready from our designer (various page styles and templates), but they will now need to be converted into working CMS templates/theme. You must be able to expertly convert standard Photoshop design files into working templates.

Our existing site (it’s for a technical college school) is done in PHP, is fairly large, and includes lots of information about our courses, student work gallery (video clips and photos), online inquiry and online application forms (with secure online payments) that dump into to a student lead database. Also, has general info about the school, instructors, and several promotional video clips, plus a “live online chat system” (PHP script running on our server).

We have a fair amount of news and events that change on a regular basis, and so want to be able to easily edit that ourselves.

We’re hoping to improve the course data aspect by implementing a “centralized” database that will populate data into the various course detail pages, forms, etc. as needed (things like curriculum, tuition, start/finish dates, etc.). Also will want to add in a new blog component.

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I searched & tested free LAMP CMS for years(!), and never found a solution, where I could have said: "That is the CMS I want to dip into". I tested Drupal 4.7 and used Drupal 5 - and I felt some unusual feelings of "endless capabilities". I presumed, that Drupal would offer nearly everything - but it would not be easy, so you'd have to concentrate on it, and use it, use it, use it. I did not. But when I read about the Drupal 6 release, I remembered that feelings and came back. And now - I think - I found it, my CMS. To be honest: not because Drupal is so great, but because the others are so ... restrictive. And I'm tired of searching for alternatives. So, I'll go with Drupal for now. And probably/hopefully for the next years, too. And if it were up to me I'd use it forever. I really would love to.

But. I was fooled by Drupal, in some way. Or to be more precise: I was fooled by my assumption. These feelings of "endless capabilities" become more silent, day by day.

Newspaper site wants to supply pdf version for online e-edition

I wondered if anyone had any input about how I might use this program to set this up?

There would be up to a years worth of newspapers available in pdf format that would open onsite with adobe reader and the tools supplied with that.

thanks

I suggest in module details page, to add the option to receive an alert maybe also with some options, for example:
1) alert me in email when module for 6.x will be stable
2) alert me when this module will be updated in email
3) alert me for any changes in email

for example me as many users, desire to receive an alert email when this module will be stable for drupal 6.x:
http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap

PHP autoloading of classes is the PHP feature I miss most. Drupal could accomodate autoloading by building an autoload function from module .info files. Let modules specify autoload: directory_name. Drupal builds an autoload function that loads from core directories first then from other modules. Use module weight to build the autoload in the same sequence as the modules load.

Even better, build the autoload in a sequence based on dependencies. If B and C depend on A, put A in the load order before B and C.

What theme does this site (drupal.org) use?