Hi everyone,
My first post, great forum... ! :)
I am looking for a CMS solution for my web site and Drupal is currently near the top of my list. I have looked at the various sites and have played around with the Demo site. However, I wasn't able to find answers to some of my questions. Therefore, I decided to ask for your help.
The web site in question is a portal for architects who sell stock house plans. Currently, it's powered by another solution, but it I am planning on expanding it and the current technology doesn't give me everything I need.
Here's a partial list of features, I would like to implement on my site. Basically, my question is: Can Drupal do all these?
1. The site is split into three main sections:
A. House Plans - providing a listing of stock house plans; each listing is served in an identical, pre-defined format (image, title, floor area, width, depth, # of bedrooms, # of bathrooms, description, etc.)
B. Architects - providing a listing of professionals; each listing is served in an identical, pre-defined format (name, logo, address, phone, fax, email, website URL, description, etc.)
C. News - blog-like news items contributed by individual users.
2. Each house plan listing has its architect assigned to it. Clicking on the architect's name would bring her/his profile, which should be standardized but with custom fields.
3. House plans data should be directly importable into the MySQL database. I own a software (separate from Drupal) that can do this. The question is: does Drupal allow it? (I've got 1,000's of existing house plan listings with new ones submitted to me continuously by architects; entering them one-by-one into the system is out of question for me).