Before you start

Is it possible to work with an installation of Drupal (not as index.php) in the background while the current website continues to run? Drupal offers a lot more than the bare bones, 7 year old site that is up now, and always being re-tweaked.

If you have any experience with this issue, please let me know! Right now I am investigating the MySQL set up, and creating the new "style.css", but after that it's all systems go!

Hi, I am a total Drupal Noob. My friend designs these extaordinarily slick Flash interfaces but I want to use Drupal admin tools. Does anyone know if a hybrid like this is possible? Does anyone have any links to sites that accomplish this?

Objective: Have a dynamic website interface that doesn't need to refresh everytime a user clicks.

I want to try out drupal as I have to move hosts right now, I have an active forum that my family uses that's been running Invision Power Board 1.3 for a few years. I was poking around a day or two ago and found a converter, but now I can't seem to find it again!
Can someone toss me a link to it? I know it's out there!
thanks so much.
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Is it possible to use Drupal (and its modules) to build a full-fledged multi-purpose community?

- user
- profiles with pictures
- searching
- matching users

- groups
- open and closed user groups
- member management

- communication
- internal messages
- VoIP client integration
- forum
- calendar

- publishing
- homepage (single page)
- blog
- favorite links
- recommendation

i want to create mulitple site using single drupal.

one case is one of the site is hosted in different Domain.
Please help me

I have done a quick search and see some others doing Camera Club/Photograpihic societies with Drupal but none have mentioned some of the features I would like to include.

Here's the lowdown on what I'm planning, maybe you can tell me if it's possible with Drupal, and possibly how I could do it and how difficult it would be.

Core features beyond what I know Drupal can do:

Gallery for paid up club members only to upload, visitors to view.
Ability to view Galleries by member.
Ability to attach project/competition tags to uploaded pictures and view them by project or competition with an overview page for that project/competition which describes it and displays thumbnails.
Possible ability to tag by subject matter etc. and to display exif (server does not have PHP5)

Calendar feature, listing upcoming meetings and project/competition dates.
Dynamic Reminders of upcoming dates on frontpage, + automatic mailout to members as date approaches.

Home page for each member, with a profile and possibly their own nice url and unique design template. To include samples from their gallery and a link to it. Custom field for camera equipment used etc. to be shown in their profile and possibly a picture of them. Links to their posts and articles etc.

Possible future ability to sell prints online.