Before you start

hi there
my current website which is running on Joomla is
it is a community music portal website, what i have been looking for is something veryyyy similar to Project Opus
I have not been able to find anything similar on any other CMS other than Drupal

my question is this, if i install drupal now, would i be able to get the same sort of thing as project opus running? or not yet? as i understand they are releasing code, but i couldnt find any information on how to get the code and go about installing the modules etc... i am not used to drupal, as a matter of fact i have never used it, so moving from joomla is not going to be easy for me
i have a lot of users, which i would like to transfer over, a few news articles wit comments on them left by the users and also comments under songs left by users.. would these also be possible to bring over to drupal? as i dont really want to lose them

i would really appreciate any help you could give me, joomla isnt really doing what i want, and drupal seems like a good move, but like i said, i dont want to lose certain information i already have on my site

Im also willing to pay someone to transfer for me if possible, as i dont know much about PHP, mysql etc.. so if someone was able to transfer my site over to drupal intact and give me something similar to project opus id be willing to pay

thank you so much

Hello.. I have to convert my old Perl-based website in a modern PHP based one, and I am considering a wiki/CMS instead of writing all the code by myself.

Hi,

I'm writing a project proposal and need to find a CMS that will meet the requirements of this project. I've been curious about Drupal for some time now, but I have little experience with CMS's. I do have considerable experience with standards-compliant web design and development, though. Because this is a private site, SEO is not a concern. Time is of the essence, so I am concerned about the learning curve.

Following are the project criteria. This site is intended to be used primarily as an extranet for general information, and especially file downloads.

hello

is there a module, which allows to define different fields for different roles? i can't find one. Or may there is another way to do that?

thx

Hi there,
So far I have limited knowledge about Drupal (2 sites so far), but I really like the power of it and eagerly waiting for my copy of Pro Drupal Development to arrive....

For this new site I need to decide whether I should use Drupal or Gallery or a combination thereof. I though I fire off this questions before going and actually trying all three. Here is what I need to do:

I have a quite big fansite including these features:

- a large gallery (with lightbox)
- a large news room + archive
- a phpbb forum
- many other info pages

For the moment, I code everything myself and it's not fun at all (and I do not find time to do it since march). And, of course, as I code everything by hand, I always forget to update something (the mainpage, or the mainpage of the section...)
I really need to be able to update the site from anywhere and to add several features like tagclouds...

My problem is to know how to move the existing page to Drupal.

1/ I'd like the gallery to still look the same:

main index for all the galleries categories:
http://sharon-stone.eu/2_gallery.php

index for 1 category:
http://sharon-stone.eu/events/index.html

Viewing one gallery:
http://sharon-stone.eu/events/0611_amfar.html

>>>>>>>>> Is there a module that would allow me to do this ?
(I want to make the thumbnails myself to crop them as I want)

2/ How to make a cool newsroom?

For the moment, the news room index looks like this:
http://sharon-stone.eu/news/index.html
and my homepage like this:
http://sharon-stone.eu/

I'd like to keep the look of these pages too

>>>>>>>>> Could you give me an advice or suggest me a module for this?

3/ Forum integration