Before you start

I am not a programmer, I don't know if it is at all possible to use this software without any prior programming experience. However I am managing a project and my programmers will be using Drupal. I would like to know how to go about intrducing myself to Drupal, to at least get a general understanding of how it works if it is at all possible to do that easily. I have been advised to download it and... well I dont know what I'm meant to do thereafter, Have a play?

This is not really "pre-installation", but it precisely fits the subtitle of the forum: "Is Drupal a viable solution for my website?" I have asked the question in a vaguer form in another forum, and spent the last week pursuing solutions suggested there (relativity, cck, views), and am going to try again with a more concrete question.

I've got a blog in mind for something other project. Going to start small, and maybe add other features later. But to start, I need a simple blog with comments and the ability to easy add "pages" (as in WP, where it very easily allows you to set up and modify hierarchal page structures). I'd just go do a WP blog to start, but given the potential for expansion in the future, I'm thinking about Drupal. But, Drupal seems so complicated to me compared to WP for a blog. Is it really?

After having done some research, I've found out that version 4.7 does have the ability to provide users with a method to create a blog, however I couldn't find anything about 5.1. So that's basically what I'm wondering: is there any way for me to provide users with option to create their own blog?

I'm beginning the process of converting from Slashcode to Drupal. There's a very old slash2drual script out there, and I'm h aving some troubles understanding the Nodes tables. The Slashcode tables seem to be a little less complicated.

There are only 2 tables in Slashcode that hold the stories, can anyone help me map these into Drupal? Everything depends on the stoid field. Other fields that I think need to come over include uid (user id), time, discussion (used by the comments table), and tid (topic ID). From the story_text I think we just need title, introtext and bodytext.

Which nodes tables do I need to drop these things into?

mysql> describe stories;
+---------------+-----------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------------+-----------------------+------+-----+---------------------+----------------+
| stoid | mediumint(8) unsigned | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| sid | varchar(16) | | UNI | | |
| uid | mediumint(8) unsigned | | MUL | 0 | |
| dept | varchar(100) | YES | | NULL | |

Hi,

I am planning to migrate my existing Community-page to drupal cms.
The only thing i miss so far, is a easy way to import my existing 2000 Forum-Threads (~50'000 Posts).

Is there a built-in way to import Forum-Data?
I assume there is no particular script for my not wide spread BB-Solution "miniBB".
The userdatabase was easy to import, because i use wordpress.
The import-script for wordpress works like a charm.