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Hi, I am anticipating Drupal for a new community website. The site will involve my members submitting reviews of their CD's, DVD's and Book, but I need to know, can I use the 'submit article' feature to manage the submission of reviews? The reviews will somehow need to be sorted, and also, can I add fields for users to fill in... so rather than having one field that says: "type article" I could have several fields such as "type review", "type rating", "purchase date" etc. also, can I make some of these fields optional?

Thanks

I need to know if Drupal is a good solution for this requirement, and am willing to pay for advice:

In my business, I create a set of 3 basic websites for my customers. The websites feature an opt-in box on the home page. When a visitor enters their info in the optin box, they are sent a series of emails automatically through a sequential autoresponder. Each email message has a link back to the website, where there are articles about the topic described in the email.

I'm looking to create a drupal website for my employer. We have a Windows environment. That is, everyone runs Windows (XP, 2003, etc) on their desktops. We all log into a global domain. Some people use IE, others Firefox, a few Opera, as their browser. The drupal site will probably run on a Unix (Solaris 9) server with Apache 2, PHP 4.4 and MySQL 5.0.

Hi everyone.

I've been looking at CMSs for a while now and like the look of Drupal. I've got it installed locally and am gradually finding my way around. I need to set up websites for local small business owners, many of whom have few if any computing skills and I'm worried that the administration side of drupal is going to be too difficult for users to use.

Is there a way to tailor the "back end" to make it much simpler for novice users and more focussed on just the tasks they need to do?

Any advice would be most welcome.

TIA

Hadi

Hi everybody,

Is Drupal for business community network ( like www.openBC.com), with features like:
- Users can post their data, like country, city, company, position, contacts, industry, hobbies...
- Finding a user by location/position/industry... and adding to your contacts (if he answer to your invitation)
- private messages between users and sending mail to contact emails in users profile
- events, news sections
- forum

(Finding and making contacts is main feature )

Hi,

I must admit that I've already installed Drupal (4.7 as it happens - I'm afraid 5.0 may not work with some modules). But that doesn't mean much - over the past few weeks I've tried several different open source CMSs to play around with them (I know about opensourcecms, but it's really not the same).

Here's my plan in a nutshell:

The core of the site is images, arranged in a hierarchy. for example, something like:

http://www.mys.ite/animals/dogs/schnauzer

(I really care about being able to define the exact URLs, give or take a few characters. Yes, mod_rewrite is enabled). Basically, each subject will have multiple images in multiple resolutions with a thumbnail and description each; I could do that as straight HTML unless there's a much better way.

visitors should be able to comment on the images, either by registering or leaving comments as guests. I'll incorporate CAPTCHAs at a later stage if necessary; I hope it's not.

It would be a plus to let people navigate the hierarchy, but not necessary: more important is to have the schnauzer appear under S in an A-Z, and provide a search feature. I'd also like to have the front page show the latest few additions, blog-style (except if there are 10 pictures for a certain subject, the front page should only show the first one - I can provide a cut-off point manually, or two versions, or whatever)

So - how easy or difficult is this to do? What should I be aware of? (modules to install, ways to arrange the data, etc)