Before you start

Hi I'm new to Drupal, though i've worked extensively before with other CMSs, like Vignette, but as of lately I used a lot Plone.

Right now I want to deploy a site with a series of features, including Forums and Newsletter, and the problem with Plone is that these functionalities are in external products that are not usually very stable or very well integrated with the site. So I checked Dragonfly CMS and it looked ok, but the problem is that is a one-man effort, the last release is from Feb 2005 and it's a mix of phpNuke and phpBB, and my experiences in these cases is that these kind of projects tend to get behind from their original sources. A mix of phpNuke and phpBB could be ok, but haven't seen an easy way to integrate these.

So far Drupal seems to be the best candidate, from what I've read on the functionalites page. Let me explain my requirements and ask some questions:

* The site will be mainly about articles, basically like a magazine (check!)

* Also will have forums (check!)

* Ideally each new article should spawn a thread for that article in a folder within the forums, as opposed to say comments in the article page, as to keep all the community discussion in the same place (because there will be a few authors of articles, but many community members that can discuss in the forums, and the forums will have many topics, one of them being "commentaries about the articles"). Can I do this in Drupal? (this is not critical, since we can do this by hand in any case, but would be nice to have).

Hello,

again, I´m a newbie, evaluating drupal for my content community and have found solutions for most of my requirements so far.

There is one more thing I´m trying to do and that is implementing a Question - Answer, Request - Reply use case, which requires related nodes (something similar to user reviews).
But I want to use a CCK node type for the answer/reply, which can also be created independent of the question.

Does anyone know how I can do that?

Thanks so much

Jochen

I´m currently evaluating if I can use drupal for my community content website.
One of the core features I envision to implement to provide a great user navigation is multi-facetted drill-down.
Similar to what is described in http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drill_down_system
or what amazon.com is doing.

Warning messages at top of the page. how can i fix it?
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I know I can simply make a blank area for "phone," but I would like to offer something similar to what is now offered by Thierry through his Phone(CCK) module which adds a validating phone component to a CCK content type. Can I use this with webforms somehow, or does someone have a cleaner solution using the most recent version of webforms(10-23 as of writing this).

Thanks

Art

Greetings all,

I'm looking for a web-site framework where:
1. Users will be able to create their own home-page, with pictures, publication, personal information and such, using online editor/management tools included in the platform.
2. In addition they will be able to maintain blogs.

Is Drupal suitable for this?
If not can someone please recommend?

Many thanks,

~Z