Hi, I would like to use Drupal and a links list module to put up a very large database of mental health resources. It now lives in an outline online at www.Psychinnovations.com/dir and gets a lot of traffic, but the outline method leaves a lot to be desired. It can't be searched, users can't add items, it takes me forever to update it because I have to use two programs to convert the data from Action Outline, where it lives on my hard drive, into the form it takes online (as a collapsing/interactive outline), etc...
I'd love to have this be easy to update, accept community input, and have the other features of a links list.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions as to how to proceed with this, so I can put out a request for bids, and do some of the work myself,
I'll need to put out the data in a form that can be imported into the appropriate MySQL database, and I'll need to select a links module, or have a dedicated directory links program use the same database, or forget about Drupal using the data and just link into the links direcory.
I figure some day, I will be glad that I kept all the data going through Drupal, so this is my first choice, even if it means being a little skimpy on directory features.