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Hi please excuse this complete newbie question. I would like to start in a modest fashion with applying a content management system to my web site (http://www.fluidedesign.com). I would like to start with an RSS feed that would provide up to date news on topics of interest to my readers, if I can't find such a feed then, as a start, a regular news feed will have to do. I would like to start small , one step at a time. I am worried that I have to change my whole web site over to this new approach.

Hi,

"He who asks a question may appear to be a fool, he who does not ask will remain a fool forever"

There are many beginners with Drupal trolling the Drupal support forums, searching for answers and not finding them.

My experience with Drupal is that very often you only know how you should have phrased your questions in the first place, once you have found the answer to your question. There are a lot of concepts and terminology that are unfamiliar, even to people with a proficient background in computing.

From what I can foresee, the complexity of Drupal will continually increase. Drupal is not a small system and the whole Drupal system together with the available modules and themes encompasses a substantial code base with a wide range of functionality. The basic usage of most computer applications can be taught in a fraction of the time that it would take a web designer to have the expertise to set up an effective Drupal based website. (I am not talking about installation, that was the easy part.)

In all fairness to the newbies that simply don't know better and will ask the questions that have been asked over and over, simply because they don't know how to phrase their questions in 'Drupal-speak', can we have a support forum called "Absolute Beginners'?

Hi,
For about a month I have been developing a website using Drupal 4.5. I work in a Debian/MySQL/PHP4 regular PC where I have installed Drupal (my hosting is a PC in my intranet). I was making a lot of pages and prooved them from the same PC, (as http://localhost/drupal/...) and everithing worked fine.... But today, I tryied to access the site from a diferent PC, and the graphical interface didn't showed as usual, it was almost in pure HTML.

I a linux guy trying to run drupal on Windows 2k Server. Not a choice I have control over. I'm having some serious performance issues and need some help. Are there benchmarks for drupal on various platforms? If so where would I find that information.

Anyone know if drupal can run on windows with decent performance?

Anything will help.

Cheers!

Hi All,

I'm new here, Infact I think I'm the newest member.

I have one project where I have to develop a portal (like yahoo) with features like Groups, Friends, Chat, Events, News etc. Can drupal handle this all tasks. Some part of the portal will be commercial so can I
use Drupal for that?

Guys guide me through this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Harish Save

A few weeks ago, I was thinking about how to launch a blog. I stumbled upon Drupal...

My goodness! After installing the package and doing some exercises, I was very much impressed! Would it be possible to create a complete website with this tool? Oh yes, no doubt about that! It proved to be a complete CMS Construction Kit, as written somewhere else at this forum.

Ever since I'm thinking about using Drupal for my clients sites. But, as a newbie in webdesign wonderland, I am thinking about how to organize maintenance. Not the maintenance of content, therefore is Drupal (hey, hey!). No, I mean maintenance of Drupal files and databases, i.e. when a new version comes out.

Do you guys have a lot of experience with this?

Some questions I have:

• Whenever a new version comes available, what do you do: contact all the clients having a Drupal powered website? And if yes, what is the message like? Or is it too good to be true, to care that much about clients?
• When installing a new version, what do you do: send a bill (per hour / per activity), offer this kind of activity for free (as a prove of service), or else?
• How long does it take to update a Drupal powered website from one version to another? Do things change a lot? Does it need a lot of technical knowledge (I managed to setup my own site)? Or is it the same trick over and over again?