Before you start

need to change my provider, now what about mysql 5.x is this supported by drupal.
Somebody has experince using 5.x?

I have spent few weeks looking at the handbook, module and the forum. I have a rough idea on how the taxonomy works. I wanted to do a food directory website, by where the restaurant will be categorized by Cuisine and Location. (and also will have the expandbility to categorized itself to other category in the future)

Each restaurant will also have a page to displaying the food it's have. (with images and food description) It will also allow registered members to post the restaurant detail, review for the restaurant, and also the food review. The owner of the restaurant will have the access to edit the resaurant and food detail.

So my question is does the following requirement can it be accomplished with the use of drupal and it's module. What module do you think it will be the best to use. (example the login module, the taxonomy module. i tried logintoboggan but i am open to see if you have a better module to recommend. )

what would be the best option to configuring the Taxonomy, based on the requirement above. (with the possibility to add new category in the future)
*do i create two vocabulary (cuisine, and location) or one vocabulary and have the cuisine and location in the terms (and the rest as the sub term)

Cuisine
-Western
-Thai
-Chinese

Location
-Australia
-United State

Thanks a million, i am hoping someone could help or maybe some resources i could follow.

I found that the aggregator module is very inflexible.

I would like the option to aggregate articles from feeds and automatically generate a node from the info in the feed. Is ther something that does this already?

Drupal is great but I am lost!

Has any beginners succeeded with drupal or totally gave up?

I mean I’ve done all the simple stuff such as setting etc… but as far as post stories/pages and put them in categories and basically do what I want to do, I am totally lost. I feel like a kid in a candy store but can’t reach the candy it’s so high up.

It’s there any hope for me? I’ve installed it and I’ve been staring at drupal for the past 2 hours hoping I could telepathically make drupal to do what I want it to do.

My head is swimming with all the information I've tried to absorb over the last few days. I've looked at several CMS systems and even considered building something myself, but I figured that if I can at least get a pre-made "core," my time will be better spent customizing that core rather than coding from scratch.

I've ruled out just about every other CMS, due to them not being extensible/flexible enough. So far, Drupal is the only one I haven't been able to rule out immediately. But I'm not sure if it'll do what I need, with a reasonable amount of effort on my part.

I have a potential client who owns an entertainment agency, booking everything from clowns and magicians to comedians and stripping telegrams. Her web site has been built up slowly over the last 10 years, page by page, in HTML. She is well into the thousands of pages now, and has smartly decided to move to a database driven design.

Here are the basics:

We'll need to have about 7 different "levels" in the hierarchy, with a different template for each level.
- Main "Splash" page, an attractive, highly graphical front page with all our current promotions and specials, leading to...
- Master Category Page, with listing of all available categories and a clickable thumbnail image for each category, leading to...
- Each Category's Main Page, with listing of all the entertainers in that category and a clickable thumbnail image for each entertainer, leading to...

So I got this pretty uncommon request from a client.

the idea is to have ~200 that are approximately the same, and there are 2 requirements
1. from the main site, one will be able to create a page on all the minisites. At the press of a button a page, with or w/out content will be created (or syndicated?) to all the minisites

2. The client will be able to edit these page individually on all the 200 sites, or perhaps even better, edit all the 200 individual pages from through one interface.