Is Drupal a viable solution for my website? Please review What is Drupal before posting.

Need to set up a team website

Hey, I'm trying to design a team website using drupal. I got drupal all installed, played around for a little while and then realized I was in over my head. The basic requirements of the site are as follows:

- A main page which basically just serves as a news page for updates (this seems easy enough to do)
- A team page with pictures and short bios of all the members
- A calendar of events. I installed the calendar module and the events module but it seems more complex than what I had hoped for...I just want a simple calendar view in which I can easily add events, such as practice times and tournaments (I don't want every site update showing up on the calendar...which is what is happening now).
- A forum (which also seems relatively easy to do)
- A picture gallery page to navigate nicely through all the team pictures (gallery2 looks really nice)
- A user system in which I can create accounts (regular visitors to the website shouldn't be given the option to create an account) for all the team members to sign in and write on the forum. I also need to create another user type that also has the ability to update the main page and event calendar. Any visitor to the site should be able to see the main page, the events calendar, and the bios page but not the forum or the pictures.

About running two or more different versions of Drupal at the same time.

I am running Drupal 5 to power a shopping cart and it looks so good.
Question:
Can I run another version of Drupal to power another application all running on the same machine at different times.

Comments appreciated from experts.
mathsoft

Who's who site (a variation of resumé, CV and Facebook)

I'm currently trying to create a site where I list politicians, their current elected positions and their history. This would on the surface seem to be something which fits existing modules, and it probably is. I've been trying to solve this in several different ways, but how I want it is hard to do it.

First I was thinking each person is a member of a group (a political party, a government etc), so organic groups might be what I need. No, b/c I need to create a user for each person I'm modelling, and they will never log in, and they all require e-mail addresses. Of course, coupled with Node Profile and CCK might be the way to go.

I'm fairly certain I need to use CCK. But I have two problems, one is with views, and one with CCK.

The CCK problem is the most pertinent. I'd like to add functionality which lets an administrator add a kind of resume. Ie. there will be a table/list of things happening in the life of the person:

June 5, 1995 -- CEO of ACME Inc.
April 6, 1995 - June4, 1995 CEO of ACME Inc. subsidiary ACME Paint.

etc.

The number of entries can be from 0 to unlimited. This is my first stumble block, what do I need for CCK to have a field which can expand like that?

The second stumble block is how can I make a field which requires both a date and a node and/or taxonomy reference.

Portal project: Plone or PHP-based framework like Drupal?

Hi everyone,
I am planning on writing a small community portal solution for a small user group. Apart from a few standard functions (extendable user profiles, avatars, chatroom, discussion forum, wiki, role-based user management, internationalization, security, authentication, fully skinnable UI so that all modules look alike after editing a central design template...) I also want to add one custom specific module providing a custom specific function.
So we are talking about a normal web portal solution with lots of standard functionality and little custom functions.

So my idea was this:
1. Find a suitable, existing web portal / web framework / CMS
2. Install all standard modules I need
3. Create a central design template
4. Write my custom module
5. Be happy with a finished portal with a minimum of custom code writing (= fast).
6. Extend it whereever I need to

Here's my question:
What should I use? Zope/Plone or some PHP-portal/CMS/framework or something else?

Even though I am a Java developer, I know doing the above thing J2EE-style would take too long.
I don't know PHP nor Python but I assume this project is worth learning a new language.

But which one? What do you suggest? Why?
If you suggest PHP: which framework / portal / CMS is suitable for my project?

One Step Forward in the right Direction?

I been working on a family website for my family. My grandmother had 19 children and most of her children had children. Right now I am the only one working and running the site. I would really love for the family to be able to input as much as they would like. So with that, I have been looking at ways to make it more of a community/blog website. I am not savvy with all the programs needed but I really want to learn how to. I was directed to this site when I searced how to make community websites.

What Modules for This....

I have just learned to do static pages/sites with XHTML and CSS so I still think that way.

Now I'm trying Drupal because I want to build a site that one other person can add to. She is the organiser of a Blues club. I am beginning to see what Drupal can do and think that we could be a little more ambitious.

So I would like:

A small forum that my friend will moderate. a) Discuss songs/artist b) local views/news c) Discuss Gigs/events d) and whatever

A place for people to join up and write reviews of artists/CDs

A place for updating the the gig-list.

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