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Hi,

I am doing a site for a friend that runs a boating business which offers two very different services. She would like to have a main splash page that the user lands on when they go to her site. The splash page then has two buttons. The first is for 'Fishing Charters' and would go to example.com/fishing. The second is 'Deep sea Diving' and would go to example.com/diving

I want to use Drupal to enable her to maintain each site section herself (add latest news, update photo gallery etc)

Greetings All !

I stumbled upon Drupal while looking into CiviCRM.

I just finished moving / replicating a non-profit organization's website off of Microsoft's free hosting onto a new pay-for (but discounted) webhosting space.

I had to "weed out" a lot of Microsoft's content management system's bloated code... and I translated some stuff into PHP.

is 5.2 the latest version? if so then why is there a 4.7.7 ?

i found this somewhere?

" As of version 4.7, Drupal theme authors can define and implement any number of 'regions' for content to be rendered into. This regioning system replaces the previous 'left' and 'right' sidebar regions and should enable much more flexible layout and design. "

Sorry for the dupe... I posted the first version in general chat, with no reply. Moderators, please feel free to delete that one.

Hi all,

I've had my eye on Drupal for quite some time now. I own and run a website called www.circuitchaser.com. I am a photographer and at this point, I am the sole admin for the site. It is running on Textpattern, and the gallery is powered with Gallery by Menalto.

Both of the content management systems -while nice- are falling short of what I intend to do with the site. The content in a blog format is proving insufficient as sometimes content needs to remain apparent for longer than it does if it gets pushed down by new posts. The gallery being separate is not ideal. I'd like one point of administration and Drupal seems to have most of the functionality that I need aside from the gallery/eCommerce requirement.

I see there is a module called image, and although I have not seen it in action, I think it will need some further development to accommodate the site's needs. The revenue stream on the site is through photo sales and advertising. Essentially the gallery is an eCommerce system where I need to add a good couple hundred products (pictures) per week. Hence my thoughts that a merge between the gallery and the ecommerce modules would be what I need.

One of my clients has asked about converting their existing dating Web site into something more manageable and not as home-grown. They've suggested Dolphin (http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin) as a potential platform for their system. Being more familiar with Drupal, I'd much prefer to work with it... but I'm not sure how hard I'll need to stretch Drupal to make it work like Dolphin. Does anyone else know of Drupal being used as a dating site?

My client's feature list includes a whole bunch of things that I know Drupal can do easily (forum, organic groups, image uploads) and other things like:
- search based on proximity (does Canadian postal code searching exist?)
- multiple public and private profiles ("VIP area") --- maybe use CCK for this?
- threaded private messaging
- integrated, not Java-based, chat (with admin features like ban/IP tracking)
- activity partner request for a specific date range (automatically expires after the date range is over) --- e.g. going to see a theatre performance/concert/gig
- verification (Web of trust type stuff, but without the key requirements) *** I personally think this one could be very interesting to implement
- blocking profiles (i.e. make it impossible for a person to contact you; or specific criteria to contact you)

Can drupal handle this: