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I've got a few drupal sites either up and running or in development and they all have separate hosting packages set up. As I'm starting to get a few more sites to develop over the coming months I'm thinking of taking out a hosting package with someone like DreamHost so I can have the one hosting package with multiple domains attached to it. I'll develop my new sites on this hosting and then probably move my existing sites to that also as their current hosting comes up for renewal. So would I be right in thinking that a multi-site setup is what I want?

Xmas-holidays in the netherlands: My son (15) and I (49) are dedicated to get drupal on our eMac (OS 10.3.9).

Since our, 8 weeks ago, posted forum topic "how first start Drupal on eMac 10.3?", we’ve been reading again and again Maczealot's article "Installing Drupal on Tiger" at http://maczealots.com/tutorials/drupal/#step1

Is there any module (s) that would allow me to create something like a noticeboard, where people could under certain categories post things they want to sell / buy, add some pictures maybe. Is there anything similar for 5.x? If not, does it require a module to be developed (involves taxonomy right?). Thanks for any answers.

I have been recently been made the technology administrator of a small k-12 educational center. We provide services to four separate county-wide school districts in our state. Our website has not been updated in a long time and navigation varies from page to page. This is why I am looking at a CMS. I would like to streamline the design, implement standard navigation, and provide additional services.

Our existing site:

http://www.sesc.k12.ut.us

I have some past issues with CMSes, namely PostNuke and Mambo, that I installed on my home computer and was playing with in my spare time. Frankly I could not figure out how to configure a theme and do certain things. I am willing to give it another shot. Now I have good skills in administration (add users, delete users, configure apache) for both Windows and Linux, but fairly poor skills in programming (I do understand HTML and CSS, however. PHP is where I can need to focus my attention).

Ideally I would like to do the following with as little PHP programming as possible:

* create a template/theme that is different on the frontpage (still with same colors and navigation) than all other pages.
* tie-in our iCal system for a bulleted list of trainings/activities
* Use a blog for a What's New section (last 3 entries on the homepage, links to the News section).
* easy for our different stakeholders to edit/change

I would like a CMS that I can grow into; I won't have to understand all elements to create simple page and keep it updated.

Hi All,

I am new to drupal - seems very promising.

I plan to set up a product information site using it. I need to have different style for each product category - is it possible?

For example: I have products for Windows, Linux, Mac - these categories will form the top navigation. Now when the user clicks on a tab (example: mac) will take him to that category page.

The category page will have a side bar/column listing all products available in that category. And I plan to have a seperate style for each such categories.

Hi, for a new drupal site I would like to promote users into a more powerful group after making X forum posts or something, and the automember module does exactly that. However, this module isn't even listed in the project/Modules page, that's a bad sign right?

Was this module perhaps discontinued in favor of another module? and does anyone know if it works?

thanks,
JR