Before you start

Hi,

I've developed community sites using Joomla and Community Builder. Can Drupal do the same type of functionality as Community Builder i.e. membership registration, private messagings, forums, blogs, photo/video upload, etc...

As for coding and customization, what type of programming skill level do I need to be... I'm mainly a front-end designer with not much backend experience. Will it be easy for me to get a site up and running using Drupal?

thanks,

Zal

I have a much longer pre-installation question, but I'll save that for another post. :)

Here is an easy one, I hope.

I see how I can set up different RSS feeds for different categories. I also see where I can set the default number of items to appear in RSS feeds. Is there a way to have different numbers of items in different feeds? E.g. show 10 items in feed1 but 30 in feed2?

Thanks!

Hello. I'm finally starting to work with Drupal. I'll be creating a community site based around a popular toy product and I'll want the full gamut of services pretty much. I'm an experienced PHP programmer if that matters. I'll want news, user voting and polling, forums, etc.

I have a few questions:

1) I have David Mercer's book on Drupal "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, And Community Websites". Would I be better off first installing 4.7 so I can follow along with the book, or would it be better for me to jump straight into the 5.x beta?

Hi there,

here is yet another "can Drupal be used for this?" type of question :)

My dad collects oldtimers from the fifties (Microcars and Scooters) and I would like to set up a "virtual museum" for him. Right now I maintain his current site (http://www.vehikelsammlung.de/) by editing plain PHP pages, but this does not really scale well and I am not keen on reinventing the wheel.

Hi,

I'm trying to determine if Drupal would work for managing only part of a website. I have created a customized shopping section for my sisters website and would like to keep that part as is, however I want to free myself from feeling 'obligated because I know computers' to my sister as much as possible for the remainder of her website. ie. I want to offload as much work onto my code iliterate sister as possible.

Hi

I have to do a website for my dad, and ofcource he cant code or anything, so i need a easy system for making content into the system. Now the site isent gonna be a blog, just a plain site, with a menu on the left and content on the right. and mabye a calender for writing stuff into.

Is this possible with Drubal? on first view it looks more like a blog.

also he would need a photo gallery is this also possible?