Before you start

I just found your site through other sites. How do you use the site? by that I mean, I upload the site when i am finished with it to a host or server? and how do I tie it into a pre-existing website?

any other starter basic questions re: this aspect is appreciated.

thank you.

Hi Guys!

I searched for days for a website that shows me, that i can also make a community site. Now i have found one:

http://www.mailfriends.com

I want to build quite a same community site, but in german. So i need to know if the modules are used on mailfriends.com are free, and if i have to do many hacks, because i am not good at scripting. Sure, i will improve it during the work on the site, but i have to know it know.

So please give me some names of the modules, especially the chat module.

I am working on a website for my mother, who is familiar with computers but not very technical, and would like some advice. It's primarily just a content site, HTML and pictures, which will be featured in 2 languages. Currently I am spending time converting Word documents into HTML which is tedious and annoying.

that sort of sums it up.
Just finished specking out a new project.
There is a portal site.
There are multiple sites that are offshoots of that site but with their own domains (could easily be v-host on same box). These can require a development team to set up.
On each site they want admin users to be able to create pages and content types (admin user)

I have never used a (content management system) CMS before but I need one for my internship as a webdeveloper.

Requirements: runs on Apache, linux or unix, MySQL and PHP (maybe Windows server and IIS)

Authentication (not sure yet): existing user database, LDAP or permissions on directories (not sure if that last one is possible)

Purpose: scientist working on projects should be able to upload their files (wide variety of types of files) to a central server. The file is described by a lot of metadata based on the datatype (data described by file) and project (this part will probably have to be programmed and added to the CMS). The uploaded file can be private (only owner has access) (owner), shared read or read/write with projectmembers (group) or public (world). Each project must have a superuser who can access all data of project.
There are serveral projects. A scientist can participate in more then one project. Some things sound like a document management system, I know of this only by name.

Other: probably available in a CMS. Able to display public information, to display information related to project(s) once someone has logged in, RSS feed, maybe being able to add comment on uploaded files of other projectmembers, blog per project, personal information about scientist, storing previous versions of files (no requirement for project, they keep daily backups).

Currently files are stored in directories. Permissions are for owner, group and world. But number of projects and number of people using it are increasing. It is only for projects in progress. Once projects are finished they are moved to a different database.

Hey Guys,

I've used Joomla and phpNuke a little in the past, but an upcoming project is a 10'000 page site in 14 languages, so I need something a little beefier! Is drupal the answer I'm looking for?

We're looking to automate the insertion of the 10'000 content pages to start with, then use a machine translation to generate the multi-lingual versions and finally employ locals in each of our 14 markets to touch up the tranlsation over time.

Any thoughts on whether drupa, php and MySQL can handle this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Callum.