Hello, I am building a social networking site for a client, and am in the proccess of researching CMS systems. Here are the specific things my client is looking for:
1. The community will consist of 4 portals, each a separate site with a separate domain (eg www.portal1.com, www.portal2.com, www.portal3.com and www.portal4.com). I've heard that Drupal can handle multiple sites on one installation, but how hard is this to achieve? Can users use one username/password for all 4 sites?
2. The client wants to have a feature that lets users vote on the top events, top venues, top churches, etc. He wants these ratings to be automatically updated and for the items to be listed according to rating. It should all be updated automatically. I imagine this is like a "topsites" feature that should display on the front page of each portal site. Is this possible with Drupal?
3. The client wants to display links to blogs in a small box on the right column, and the links should appear not as a static list but as a text-scroller. My question is, would I be able to use something like this: http://www.news-scroller.com/ on a Drupal site?
4. Does Drupal work with sites like Feedburner to export and display RSS feeds from other sites? The client wishes to have one block of content in the left column to display on all 4 of the separate portal sites. Can the content of that block be exported as RSS on one of the sites and then its feed displayed on the other 3?