Before you start

Hello,

I decided that I want to delve into Drupal to do some small websites.
I have a lot Joomla experience but before moving to Drupal, I'd like to know some things. I'll sort things out myself but can somebody just tick off my questions like possible/not possible

Here we go:

- make content categories more than 2 levels deep (Joomla only allows a section and a category in this section but a subcategory is not possible)

- ACL => Can I setup ACL so that I can allow users to edit specific sections/categories or even single pages? (Joomla => JACL)

hello

is it possible to configure drupal, that it allows to choose between 2 different profiles at the registration?

because the website should be made for two different target groups. a person should be able to select, what kind of target group he/her is and then there appears a different registration form. one with a bit more required personal information.

possible?

Hello,

I am part of of non commercial research project, of which the main the deliverable is based around a mysql / php driven website.

The important part is the content though, rather than us developing it from scratch, so no worries there.

In a nut shell, the site will be a type of 'troubleshooting' service where users can identify issues they have (and see what issues others have) and find possible strategies to over come them. We need it so that users can come at the info from several different routes, ie you may look for issues based on the difficulty(ies) the issue relates to, the application(s) it relates to etc

I have designed the database to support this and my next step will be to build the forms using php/html but I'm not sure how quick at this I will be, which has caused me to look at possible alternative development strategies.

how flexible is drupal? is there any facility for building forms based on the database design? Many of the tables are 'related' to each other. say for example, we used drupal and were adding an issue to the Issue table of the database, could we also set the form to allow us to select the difficulties it relates to and update another table based on this selection?

On a new install, being my first time installing, should I go with 5.1 or 5.2. Are most of the modules upgraded for 5.2, or would I be better off going with 5.1 to start?

Any help is appreciated.
CW

Hi there,

I cooked up a site for a friend's music project some time ago, and I'd like to bring in some CMS functionality to make updating easier for him.
He should be able to upload & manage songs, photos & maybe videos, and write short news articles.

The address is www.mellotronmetal.com

I guess Drupal is a bit overkill for this, but maybe it'd be a good starting point for my first steps with Drupal..?

Ok, I know, I'm an idiot, I should have read the drupal requirements more closely,

let me tell you what I have done....

I have downloaded the drupal file and unzipped it....

k, I need a web server, I've chosen MySQL

problem 1) can anyone provide me with a step by step walk through what to do, which registration should I use?

problem 2) Is there anything else I need to download?

thanks again for being patient...

S_MS