Before you start

Greetings:

I've been doing a few sites for artists and am under some pressure to create a system in which the artist (who is taking the pictures and writing the copy anyway) can go to the site and add new pieces to their galleries. I've been building these sites for years with (please don't laugh here!) FoxPro under Windows. I have a table of individual artworks with names, filenames of images, pixel dimensions, price, description, series, etc., a table with the series numbers and full names, and a couple of scripts that write out all the HTML.

A typical gallery page from this process is here:
http://www.bigskydyes.com/rustdyed.html

Note that there are seven galleries currently, one for each series, and that the gallery page lists all the individual work in that series with thumbnails. There is an alphabetical index to every work in the artist's portfolio on the bottom of the gallery page. Now, if you click on any of these, you get to, for example:
http://www.bigskydyes.com/html/barbedwire.html

On these detail pages we still have access to all the galleries, and we have the list of each of the individual works in the series at the left. In this case there is a main photo (same image as appeared on the gallery page, but larger image size) and one detail shot, some pages have two details.

I think that this level of internal navigation, if not exactly this setup, is critical to making a site like this work.

Hello everyone,
I am working on a new 4.7 website for which I will have a master domain and several sub-domains.
I have read a lot of the posts about this topic in the forums.
However, I am still not sure whether I should opt for a multi-site configuration or if I should download drupal for each subdomain and use the sign-on module so users can stay logged in across the whole site.

So several questions, if you have time to answer:

1)
what is the big advantage of a multi-site configuration expect saving time downloading drupal several times?

I can't find any place in the install text file what files to upload. It doesn't say. Do I upload everything? It seems that some files like the install.txt files wouldn't need to be uploaded.

Also do I just upload all the files to the domain root directory of my website or can they be inside a folder website.com/drupal/ ?

Thanks.

I was wondering, since my host does not offer PERL support, is it possible to still run Drupal, w/o PERL?

Thanx.

I've got a client with some very specific multi-site/domain needs. I suspect the not-yet-released multi-domain module for not-yet-ready-for-production Drupal 5 is what they need. I'm really uncertain how to proceed. Before I take the possibility of using Drupal 5 to the client for discussion and certainly before I nuke the sorta inadequate, but working, Drupal 4.7 multi-site set-up, I'd like to try Drupal 5 with the multi-domain module to see if it really does the things I imagine and need.

Hi, My name is Philip. I'm considering switching to Drupal but I've got some questions left. First of all, I was wondering if there is a way to sort menuitems created in Administer/Site building/Menus. For example: can I move menuitems upwards and downwards? It would be really, really, really nice if there is drag and drop functionality, or even something like MygosuMenu.

Secondly, I found out that Drupal uses regions in which I can position menus. I suppose these regions are styles by css. Is it possible to add regions myself?

Thanks in advance