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I need some suggestions please.

Here is the outline:

I have a "Newspaper" Web Site, there are 4 counties within usable reach of this site. When a user registers I would like them to register for their county. Now, If another user registers from the same county, they are in that "counties group", say County-A. Now User number 3 comes along and registers, he is from County-B.

Now we have three registered users and an admin. 2 registered user in County-A and registered user in County-B.

When creating a story, by default, Drupal cuts it off at a certain length and insrts a "read more" tag for the user to click to read the complete story. How can I disable this so the entire "story" shows up on the main page?

Which WYSIWG editor works with the Mac version of Firefox?

Ed

Hi, I'm trying to decide whether I should go with a prebuilt system, or roll my own website from scratch. For pre-built systems, I've narrowed it down to drupal or xaraya, and am leaning towards drupal. So I thought I'd ask people more familiar with it if it could meet the requirements of what I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to build a community website, similar to websites like myspace, or hi5. The features I'm looking to implement are

- User profiles that include journals (blogs), user comments, primary pictures with the option for a user photo gallery, and basic bio.
- A rating system for users, where they vote on each other (linked to the user, not to individual pictures)
- a scoring system, where people are awarded for comments, forums posts, new journal entries, etc etc. This is something I'd need to build on my own, as I'll want to put in restrictions like only being awarded for posts made every so many seconds, and of a certain character count, to avoid people spamming the forums for points.
- public forums
- user created forums
- private messaging for users
- instant messaging and buddylists (IM I'll probably build on my own using Ajax)
- rich text editor for comments, journals, forums posts
- smilies divided into groups that can be purchased with score. Same with photo gallery spots.
- a way to integrate some sort of paypal system, so that people can get extra features as paid subscribers. ie: extra photo galleries, smilies, etc etc.

I'm not sure if this is a general or a support topic. but please have mercy if i't the latter.

Greetings,

I am investigating CMS systems and I came across Drupal. I have used other systems, most recently TYPO3 (see www.judonyc.com). I want to know if Drupal will satisfy my requirements:

1. A set of related sites for different chess clubs under an umbrella site.
2. Support for content based on user (login) and group (which club the user belongs to). The front page, public, would have common announcements etc.
3. Ease of administration. The site will be administered (mostly) by one or two smart, non-technical people.
4. User tracking. Users, mostly kids, will try different chess exercises, and we want to track their progress to suggest new exercises.
5. An easy way to integrate an online chess board. This last requirement is admittedly ridiculous. There are excellent chess sites out there, with dedicated support staff. As such, it can be dropped. I am curious about the response.
6. Performance/Scalability. Typically, kids login only in the evenings - after they have done their homework. So I will need something that will support about 100 concurrent users (admittedly an optimistic guess). I looked at the performance numbers posted on this forum, but they didn't really tell me much (how many concurrent users, server setup etc, saturation point etc.). Has anyone benchmarked Drupal against a similar site using a different CMS? For example, anecdotal evidence suggests that Mambo or Joomla do not perform well under load, and would be unsuitable for my needs.