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Hi, guys,
can non software guys like me use drupal for travel portal site? i have minimal experience with dreamweaver which i've been using for a static travel website. Without php, css, xhtml, etc., can i use Drupal to build a site with tour itineraries, blog, forum, photo gallery, weather modules, most popular or viewed items, calendar of events, polls, rss, google sitemap?

Hello,

I am shopping for a Linux VPS, on which I will run several
Drupal 4.7 based websites.

The only parameter I'm frankly unable to judge myself is the minimum amount of
RAM I should ask for, to make sure that that doesn't become the bottleneck. Assuming I have a pretty realistic idea of how much traffic I'd get in my the first year, how should I map that to RAM? Of course, even cpu speed is important, but that is something you can't change on a VPS plan, unlike RAM. Let's also ignore bandwidth, for simplicity.

Hello Drupal friends,
I like Terminis's image gallery zooming (http://www.terminus1525.ca/explore). Is there a non-flash module that can do it?
(I want to show an dynamic image gallery - the thumbnails should be re-calculated every time).
Cheers,
Amitai

I currently have a website with approximately 150 pages. I would like to install drupal without having any downtime (or very limited downtime) of the website and the content. Is there a way to load all of the content into drupal and then do a switch to drupal once the content is completely loaded and I am ready to use drupal to drive the site? Also, is it possible to maintain my existing directory paths with Drupal?

If these questions are possible, can you give me the details on how to do it?

Many thanks!

Hi,

Looking for a stable CMS that offers the following features:

SCRIPTS / MODULES REQUIRED
1) Auction (with "Buy Now" feature)
2) Blog (with RSS syndication)
3) Gallery
4) Links

Reason for CMS option (rather than individual scripts) is single user registration with which to login to Auction to buy, and Blog to comment, and single login for Admin to everything.

I just ordered a book on php5, mysql and apache. Now I hear there are some problems with php5. So should I cancel the order and take a year older book instead that deals with php4?

I understand there are some ways to circumwent the problem but for a total newbie like me I´d prefer using a older version of php if that is less hassle, so is it still an issue or has it been pached?