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I need to pick a system to host 22 discrete sites with 22 host names. Can I do this with a single Drupal installation or do I need to somehow have 22 instances? I need to also have 22 individual editors at a minimum but probably many more.

Hi there,

It seems to be the trend to use 3rd party services to handle newsletters, for example Aweber, Mailchimp, etc

That's great in many cases, but sometimes an integrated solution within Drupal is the better solution, because you want to use content from your website, or you'd like to just keep your data on your own server.

I've been looking into a few different options on how to do this. The only two that came close to my requirements where the Simplenews Module and the Newsletter Module.

But both of them have in my opinion 'critical' pending issues that haven't been sufficiently addressed yet.

Simplenews:
The subscribe block doesn't have a name field (only an email field) - example: http://drupal.org/node/1274942
I find it essential to provide a name field, in order to personalise the newsletter (Hello John, ...)
This issue can't be solved by using theSimplenews Realname module nor by using the Webform Simplenews Component module. Both are throwing errors.

Newsletter:

What is the recent change in Google Analytics?

I was wondering if what the pro's and con's are of making forms more entity'ish..

Why not make "all" the forms based on this form.entity type. Adding field (and thus widgets) would be a breeze (from a UI perspective). In core there are a few "fixed" forms like:
- the login form
- the contact form
- the password forget form
- the comments form
- the modules forms (like rating of add to cart)
- e.t.c.

Hi, can anyone help me with the information regarding Coupon Directories and its importance.
Thanks in advance.

The forums section of this site, it seems to me as a new user, is focused structurally on Drupal development. That's understandable given that this is Drupal.org.