Before you start

I'm looking for some ideas for converting my current site, deninet.com/tessflynn.net over to Drupal 4.7.

Presently, the site is running a homebrew CMS that I've written myself. The "main site" is basically a repository for news articles and random ideas. These are organized into categories within the CMS. Each user on the site can define a number of these categories, and post entries in each. Each entry is version controlled and comments follow with the version. In other words, if a new version of the entry is posted, it appears to have no comments. Comments can also be voted on, but this feature was never really used.

The site also hosts a number of user pages and subdomains that aren't related to the main site. These contain either personal pages, or project-central pages. Some of these are running Wordpress, others phpBB, others just base HTML. These pages have little to no content, so I'm not too worried about the conversion here.

What I would like to do is to bring all of these pages under Drupal and practically eliminate the need for the subdomains and user pages and other CMSs. I think Drupal can do this, although I'm still new to the system and am unsure of its capabilities. I would still like the ability to create "subsites" for individual projects that have their own default theme, but still draw upon the same module and user account database that's used for the main site.

I recently redesigned this site:

http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/

It's already in PHP, mainly to take advantage of PHP includes, but has pages that would benefit greatly from databased management: lists of scientists' publications, phone directories, project lists, etc.

I thought this article would be useful for people/organizations trying to choose between Drupal and asp.net. I believe asp.net has better out-of-the-box functionality for what views is trying to do.

This article compares php with asp.net, and concludes php is preferable. The fact that the article is on oracle.com bodes well.

http://drupal.org/node/19674#comment-131097

http://www.drupalecommerce.com/node/969

I'm evaluating Drupal as a CMS option for a client and I have some question about Drupal's themes system. In looking over the themes that are available for download, I notice most of them use a Transitional DTD; furthermore there is a note in the main site's source that it does not validate.

Hello:

I'd like to know the following:

1. Can you install Drupal on a shared hosting plan account or does it need to be installed at the root of a server?

2. Do you need anything else outside of the basic installation requirements in order to install drupal with IIS?

3. I have read about the core installation of drupal. What else should you consider installing with the core installation in order to get a full blown web cms up and running?

Hi All,

I am planning to use Drupal 4.7.x for my site hosted with goDaddy. They provide PHP version 4.3.1 and PHP5 (I can use both or any one). Reading the requirements I found min requirements is PHP 4.3.3 - so should I move to PHP 5 - I read from other places that PHP5 and Drupal causes frequent problems.

Help in this regard is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Kalyan