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I was posting this topic in a wrong forum, so i repost here hoping will get some help:

I dont know if Drupal is a good choice for portal site, or is it just a news-blog site ?
My site doesnt need many portal functions, what im looking for is : a solution for multi sites hosting with 1 install, the manage/administrator section that we can set and run some pages (to input data), the ability to set the authority for some users (admin can input data, users can only query - select data .. ) thats all.

I'm looking to have a couple different things going on on my domain. I'm looking at using drupal for the main domain CMS. I plan on making subdirectories and subdomains for the other things.

I have a couple questions that came up from this.

I doubt it, but will(if setup properly) other CMS or software(wordpress, mediawiki, xoops, etc) installed inside a drupal site screw with either program??

IE: /(root) is where all drupal files are .... /others/wordpress is where wordpress would be.
They should be unrelated and not touch each other, as long as databases are not conflicting, but just wondering if thatd mess with anything.

My other question is about subdomains and subdirectories...

I assign wordpress its own subdomain, wp.domain.com .. Seeing as /others/wordpress would be Wordpress' directory.. Would I enter the http address as wp.domain.com or domain.com/others/wordpress ?? Would the first way screw anything up with nodes or such??

My thoughts are I think either way is doable but I'd rather people not see that wordpress is in /others/wordpress and I think assigning a subdomain would mask that, but what if when people went to files or nodes?? I installed 2 versions of Drupal, 4.6 and 4.7. I first assigned 4.7's home as /test/47 then later made a subdomain for it. It shows frontpage at subdomain but I go anywhere else it shows /test/47 I'm wondering if assigning the subdomain addy as home will fix that????

The topic pretty much says it all. What I'm looking for is what modules combonations do you think would best do this??

I'm open to using 4.7 but don't see any modules for it yet so I'd rather use 4.6 unless its known that 4.7 will blow 4.6 out of the water. I've spent several weeks testing 4.6 and numerous module setups(I've had around 60 installed at once to test). I've come to the conclusion I don't want 60 modules installed, that only means I'm 100% more likely to run into trouble down the road because I may test but I'm still fairly new, especially with setting up taxonomy, categories and vocab.

What I plan for my site;

• blogging
• downloadable files
• image gallery
• video clips(maybe)
• forum
• wiki-able
• WYSIWYG-able
• users can upload anything and contribute content(articles, etc)
• each user has their own devoted section of works(this might be under profile)
• Possibly the ecommerce module(what all that involve?) to sell stuff if I find something to sell
• Professional(or cool looking) template

The things I'm most concerned about are the wiki, forum, WYSIWYG and download areas. I haven't tested these to much, but have not run across any download modules like what drupal.org has. The wiki thing seems odd and seems like users would abuse it. The factory forum is just unimpressive, I'd look more for phpBB based.

I'm looking into a new CMS/blogging tool for a community website/blog I'd like to start. Sort of a libertarian version of Kos/Red State. My problem is that I know little to nothing about tech stuff. I'm utterly incapable of installing even the simplest platform on my website, so I'll need tech assistance installing it and setting up the basic design. My questions:

1) If I go with Drupal, where could I go to find back-end assistance? (uh, on a severely restrictive budget)

2) How user-friendly would I find Drupal once I've gotten it installed?

I am going to do a website for an organization that (among other things) offers different courses. There are different types of courses, different teachers and different course locations. I need a system that has a page for each course type with a listing of up-comming courses, a calender with all courses, a list of next three up-comming courses on the front page and probably a few things more. A system for course participants registration might be relevant at a later stage.

Hello! First off, I am really really stoked that I found Drupal. The days of hacking the pants off of MovableType are finished. I plan on learning this CMS from front to back and eventually contributing to the efforts (whether by code or funding)

Here is what I want to use Drupal for:

I want a community site that will have a main blog (that some members will have permissions to post to), a forum section (all members have permission) and photo galleries that all members can post to (but not all can create the galleries) . I would also like an event calendar that one person will add events to and users can either RSVP or at least see the events/dates somehow.

Since the site is so community driven, I was initially drawn to Civicspace. After doing some research, Civicspace seems a bit too bloated and will have features that I won't need or want to utilize.

Here are my questions:
1.Is it better to install Drupal and pick and choose the modules that I need, or go with Civicspace and just ignore some of the extra features? Civicspace seems bloated and I've read reports of sluggishness (and that it's server intensive). Can anyone validate this?

2. Based on how I will be using Drupal, can you give advice on the best modules for this application? I would like to look at the individual modules before proceeding with the drupal installation. (yes I have been through most of the modules, but would like to hear from a seasoned drupal user to get advice on this).