Before you start

I have a web site
http://www.new-eastside.com
forum using SMF
http://forums.new-eastside.com/
and news blog using Wordpress
http://blog.new-eastside.com

I guess it's fun and fine but suspect I could make it look a lot more integrated with Drupal?

What would you do, is it worth the effort to try to convert?

TIA,
Eric

I have been trying to see if a module exists already or not for this purpose. More or less, I want to create an internal intranet site for my company. The issue, is that I want separate sections for each department. In essence, one core front-page for company wide announcements and navigation. And then on top of that have these sections for each department.

Those sections obviously would be viewed by everyone, however only edited by those who SHOULD edit for a given department/section. I also want each department to have the ability to do their own pages, stories, blogs etc. In essence it would be like mini websites for each departments where they can post stories on a "front page" of their section, and also add their static pages for other content as well.

From what I have seen of Drupal so far, you can have multiple users on one site, but in essence the overall "topic" of the site is the same. Stories only can be posted to the front page, and being able to setup URL structure seems almost insane.

Regarding URL structure.

In essence I have http://example.com

example.com has the "main" stories page for the company, and then some relevant data and a menu that lists each department.

Then I can do something like http://example.com/departments/depA, http://example.com/departments/depB, etc, etc

But also be able to do http://example.com/departments/depA/about, http://example.com/departments/depA/contact, http://example.com/departments/depA/blog, etc, etc....

Is there an easy way to establish this, or am I somewhat up the proverbial creek?

Hi All,

Have been checking the Drupal site and examples for a while and i was wondering if Drupal would be right for me based on my wishlist below.

I hope that this question can be objectively answered by the members of this forum. I have been struggling with Xoops, Mambo and Joomla for a few months. After all the "easy" install propaganda and the "ease of use" prattle I have found that these CMS's are poorly documented and that the forums are sorely lacking in expertise when one has problems that require thought to rectify. In other words; I have an admin panel that shows no icons and have posted 5 times for help and gotten none. Therefore, although somewhat jaded, I found drupal.org. One of the reason that I am hee and looking for a CMS is that I am a photographer and saw a site done with Drupal that knocked my socks off. It is very close to what I would love to build. That said, I would like to try drupal, but, thought I would post on this forum to see if support actually exists on any of these forums. You see, although this may seem a lousy way to introduce myself, by complaing about other products and support forums, I would much rather know what to expect rather than wasting hours trying to build a site and getting little cohesive support.

Actually, I am a very easy going and nice guy. I just want to know what support, as I know I am going to need some, this forum has to offer.

I am going, eventually, to be uploading this software to a windows Plesk server with no Apache server.

I am glad to make your aqaintances and hope I haven't stepped on any toes by posting this way.

Hi. I am a webcartoonist who publishes Help Desk, a M-F comic. I'm currently using WordPress to drive everything, but I'm running into problems getting it to behave the way I want it to when it comes to managing archives.

Drupal looks like a pretty capable system, and it looks like I might be able to get it to do what I want, but I can't tell from what I've read in the handbook area because the handbooks assume you already know a little bit about what you're doing (which is a reasonable assumption, since they're written for people *using* Drupal). But I want to get a handle on what I can expect before I try to dive in, because I want to keep my site's down time to a minimum. So I apologize if the questions I ask have actually been answered on the site. I'm sort of anchorless here.

All that aside, here are my questions:

1. Migrating from WordPress to Drupal -- the handbook mentions that it's possible, but that it might take some doing. I have little to no experience mucking about with databases, but I'd really like to be able to transfer all the information I've already put into the Drupal sql database over so it can continue to be used. Or, best case scenario, have Drupal take over the database already being used. I don't need to preserve the look and feel of the site -- I can just modify whatever templates come with Drupal to make it look the way I want after the fact.

Hi everybody,

I have a small problem with my current Drupal installation. I am using i18n with English as default and Danish as optional language. And this works quite alright - but there are a few things that bugs me.

1. When I use the search function - all results turn out in English (the default language) - also when I search using Danish setup. Is there a way to have the search function sorting out Danish content for Danish setup and English for English?