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Hi,

I'm looking to install Drupal for a magazine online and I have a strong idea of the aesthetic I would like to go for . Is there something like IJoomla, excepta free Drupal module that would allow me the feel of a magazine rather than a blog. Aesthetically I'd be taken a lot of inspiration from http://spannered.org

Much grateful if someone can point me in the right direction.

which is better when having multiple installations of drupal?

to have one database and multiple installations?

or

one database per installation?

my hosting provider mentions MySQL containers, which (as of now I am not to familiar with)

I have a requirement to play audio on a web site. As the visitor moves from page to page the audio should continue. I want to use Drupal and really don't want to use frames.

Is there a way to do this? The site is heavily multimedia and I understand the Client wanting to put audio on the site.

I've searched around, but haven't been able to answer this question myself, so if this has been covered before please point me in the right direction and forgive me for this post.

What I'm looking for is the ability to create a site where users are able to register and host their own blog. I've looked at wordpress mu, but I think for management and control Drupal may be better or I may be wrong.

How I picture it: John Doe creates an account with the user name jdoe at www.domain.com. Once his account is created (with the email verification feature) he's able to login and is automatically taken to www.domain.com/jdoe where he can post to his blog and upload content to his blog. I don't want other users to be able to edit another users blog or for a user to create users for their blog--just a single user blog. The idea is pretty simple and nothing new, but I'm not sure how to go about this.

Do I need to use a multisite drupal install? Which modules would I use? Is Drupal the right platform? I would plan to add additional features, such as showing recent posts and users on the main (www.domain.com) page, which is why I thought Drupal would be better than wordpress mu.

I'm looking at alternatives to a (very expensive) CMS system that the college I work for has been quoted on and was wondering if Drupal could fit the bill. I've been looking at Joomla, which I think could more or less meet our requirements, however I've used Drupal for another site I'm working on and find it much nicer to use so I thought I'd look into it for this project. What the site needs to do is:

Hello..

Im just looking into various options for building a website with fairly extensive functionality (compared to what ive created in the past) and am considering using drupal. Perhaps someone could let me know if drupal is capable of the following...