Before you start

Hi guys,

After being impressed by the large number of high-traffic sites using Drupal, I'm considering using it. I feel I was misguided by Joomla's "out of the box/cookie cutter" experience.

I want to create (and I'll need the community's support of course) a informational site in a "newspaper" format for ITASA, the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association.

I want to start a website where users must pay to post content.

They will be paying me cash so I dont need to implement paypal or anything at this time.

Basically I want to have some sort of credit system where I can add funds (and time) to their account and they can post.

I say time because I want to have like a monthly package, where a user can pay me and get unlimited posts for 1 month (or maybe even pay for 6 months up front)

How would something like this be implemented?

There are plenty of places to download but they all give me a that opens to my acrobat reader and then there is nothing there. Actually what I am looking to download is not likely to be on a reader because it is the software you provide for building a blog.
Please tell me where to download it.

I'm attempting to setup a public web site that will require a hierarchy (Home, About Us, Contact Us, Resources, Resources -> childpage, etc..) and each page will have an access level applied to it so only a user of the correct level can view that particular page (member, premiere member, ceo, etc..). Is this possible with Drupal? Will I require certain modules to make this work?

Thank you!

Hi Gang, this is Nick from TreeHugger.com, a fairly big eco-site (2MM pageviews a month). We're currently running on MovableType but I'm seriously considering a switch to Drupal.

I was hoping someone might be able to answer the following basic questions:

Good evening, all. First post to the Drupal Fora.. if all goes well, it'll not be the last ;-)

I have worked up a set of parameters for a project I am undertaking. There's no particular timeframe on this, but obviously I'd like to get it up and running as expeditiously as possible. I have been reading several posts in this forum that seem to indicate a multi-month learning curve... which is somewhat daunting.

Anyhow... here's what I am thinking of doing: