Before you start

I'm hosted by iPower and I have no idea how to install drupal onto its database. I don't know where to find the commandline either. Someone help me.

I'm might be taking an assignment to redesign my college's main newspaper's online presence over this summer, and I'm considering using either Drupal, Textpattern, or a new version of their homebrew system to do so. There are two main problems with Drupal and Textpattern: I need to be able to make "Issues" - weekly, special, etc - and be able to only show articles from that issue on the front page, etc - just like a normal newspaper. And I need to make the issue not appear until all articles are proofed & ready, just like our current system can.

Hi,
I would like some information please on the new built in free taggin feature of 4.7 RC1.

*Free tags
-Does this feature allow for association of any "keywords" when a new content is added ?
-Can a search be then launched on any of these tags ?
-How are these free tags then displayed ? (example welcome)
-Does this feature work when adding a content with Flexinode ?

*New search
Lets say that i create a field "country" to my flexinode content type "Companies".
Can I then launch a search, specifically on the field "Country" ?

Hi,
still undecided to use drupal or not, after spending long period on this site and on my installation.

I need to create several nodes types (content types).

Flexinodes make it easy. But from what I read, it is less performant than built in method. Since I will need like about 20+ fields per content types, and have several thousands nodes, I had a look at how to creat custom nodes types and came over this page: http://drupal.org/node/35686

Okay, I'm brand new to Drupal, but I've heard good things. The main thing I want to know is whether Drupal works well handling multiple sites (i.e., multiple domains) from one location.

Here's what I'm wanting to do:

I'm currently evaluating options for a student news publication, and I'm trying to figure out if Drupal will work. The main hangup I seem to be having is the idea of issues. ("Issues" is an ambiguous, not to mention unsearchable word, so I'm referring to "weekly editions" )

This newspaper is a humor publication, and has a few different kinds of content: Stories, Columns, Horoscopes, Weekly Images, Letters to the editor, etc. The way that we create content is that during the week the writers post content to an internal site, and everyone comments and revises. Over the weekend, the editors select the content to use for that week's issue and publish it to the website. We want to have the main page show the current issue, with each type of content in a specific place. We also want to be able for users to go to an archives page and see the same layout, but for older issues.

I'm comfortable writing the modules for the individual content types (horoscopes, weekly images, etc) but I'm not sure what to do about aggregating them for the front page. Would it be possible for me to write an Editions module that gathered all of the nodes matching that Edition? Or should I use the taxonomy system and create a vocabulary called Editions with each Edition as a term? I could probably use mod_rewrite to fix the URLs, but could I modify the taxonomy module to show a specific Edition formatted a specific way? It seems that if I wrote my own Editions module, I would have to add an Edition field to every node type, and would have to add a new Edition to each node every week.