General discussion

Hi all,

I need to do a community site and have not used Drupal before. The site requires local businesses to be able to post their own business details; summary, contact details, photo etc. Rather than let them use the admin panel, it would be preferable for them to do this by way of a html form like this: http://www.ourwynnummanly.com.au/community/post.chtml

Are there any modules/plugins for Drupal that allow this?

What is the best way to collect posts in an organized manner on the front page. I'm building a site for a musician and want to have the most recent Events and News displayed on the front page. I know I can simply set the defaults for each type to be promoted to the front page so that when they are submitted they will be collected on the front page, But I'd like to have them organized. An example would be having a List of News and then a List of Events. I have been able to do this by using the news aggregator but I don't know if this is the most efficient way of doing this.

I have a private site (no anonymous users) and would like to administer it so that all registered users are subscribed to all new content, how can that be done? Basically have everybody get emails whenever new content is posted.

Thanks.

Following up some discussions about drupal, the strengths of drupal and his weakness I can observe often this pattern:
1. Some "hot" topics are discussed again and again in countless different threads. Discussions about new features, wishes, concepts are not organized. As an example take the discussions and modules about node relations. This has the following negative effects:
a) The finding process of what module should be used for his requirements is painful and time intensive. This leads to frustration and a (new) user might drop drupal, which would not happen when the information would be organized

b) This user would be ready to code some improvements or a new module, or in my case to pay somebody who does it (I am not coder). But since I do not really know how many others are now working on the same problem, I am hesitating to do it, because I do not want to spend time/invest into something which is implemented already by others.

2. Users are frustrated about finding information in an efficient way.

3. 12790 topics in the "post-installation-forum" says all. It makes a chaotic impression.

4. Users are frustrated about some functions missing in drupal or a module, but looking exactly at their statements the frustration is to a big part about information finding and organization, and more about knowing whether there are work-arounds or additional functions planned.

Hi !

I use a flexinode with PHPtemplate layout.

I wonder how both thumbnail and big image ( I use two images fields ) could be automaticaly croped to have square images ?

Could I use this ? http://drupal.org/node/21811 And if it's possible, how and where do I have to put it please ?

I hope you can help with that ;) Thank you :)

Can somebody make more drupal banners ? I could use a 180x60 one :).

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