Before you start

Is Drupal able to be used as a CMS for a larger blog-style site?

What I want to do is create a site for my local community where anyone can create an account, log-in and start blogging, uploading photos or mp3's.

Kind of like "myspace.com" for my friends. (I personally hate myspace.com, a pedifiliac's dream site apparently).

Is this feesable or not?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm have a website that uses cpgnuke + coppermine + a hybrid of my own php website. The site works well, but I am interested in migrating to a platform that is all-inclusive. The best I think I can find is either a Joomla + Gallery2.1 or Drupal + Gallery2.1. But in Joomla, it looks like the community portion and permissions are like an after thought. Wish there was an integrated solution of the features of Drupal + Gallery2.1. Here's my question, how long will it be before a stable version of Drupal + Gallery2.1 will be ready for a production site?

I am looking for a CMS that has the ability to natively or with a plug-in give me the ability to create a site were people could review businesses and or search for reviews. The review criteria (fields) would have to be customizable such as Country, State, City, etc. and be searchable.

Thanks,

Vajra001

Hi all, could anyone recommend suitable module(s) to logically structure a website focused on illness and their associated treatments? I have all the info, but am a little stuck on suitable structure for a drupal powered medical databank...

Obviously some illnesses will have multiple associated treatments, and vice-versa.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I have seen people having trouble install multiple sites from a single codebase.
That is why I have posted this.
Pros of a multisite installation:
•Less room taken
Cons of a multisite installation:
•You need certain features not all hosts have

I hope this helps.

Hosting requirments:
SSH access
FTP access

Directions:
1. If you don't have an FTP client, get one, or use the one you have. For Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, use Cyberduck, and you see the website at http://www.cyberduck.ch, and download it at http://cyberduck.ch/Cyberduck-2.5.5.dmg. For Windows, use Firezilla, at http://firezilla.scourceforge.net, and downloadable at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/filezilla/FileZilla_2_2_19.zip?download.
2. With your FTP client, connect to the FTP server.
3. Install Drupal in the main directory of your site. In this example, we'll say this is in the main directory, or /main. For those of you that don't know, / seperates directories, and the directory / is the directory that you first see when you log in to FTP, also called root.
4. Using whatever service you host has (e.g. CPanel, 1&1 Control panel, ect.) create the subdomain you want(In 1&1, you will need to change the destination.
5. Using your FTP client, look for the folder that your host created. Here we will assume it is /subdir
6. Open up your shell program. On Mac OS X, it is the Terminal. I'm not quite sure as to wat it is on Windows, because I don't use it, but I'll find out.

The past few weeks I played a lot with drupal. Now I'm at the stage were I would do a final installation for a website. The site is going public around april 2006.
I really need more regions (which is standard as for 4.7, but I can do a workaround with the lay-out of the page for the time being) and I would love to have the block access by role. What's the right thing to do? Just install the 4.7 beta6? Or what's the best block access by role solution (I found several) when I do stick with 4.6 and upgrade just after 4.7RC comes out?

Anyone using 4.7 for a public site by now?