Before you start

HI there.
I like to disable the breadcrump navigation on the top of mu site pages.
I couldnt find where its being produce.
Any clue anyone ?

Hi,
i'm considering converting my site to drupal, but before the move, I need precise answers to my questions please.

1) My site is a business directory. A kinda yellow page directory. Here are the features that I use, please tell if I can replicate this in drupal

- A link belongs to several categories
- A link has custom date entry input fields (address, zip, country, long description....)
- I can perform a search on several fields, like search by zip+ country.....
- Link has a "detailed page" so when in category, user can click on "more info" link
- I can choose which field to display or not on category page AND detailed page
- If a field contains no data, it will not display its label
- RSS Syndicate new links feed

From my understanding, this kind of directory can be achieved with the "taxonomy" system of drupal. So with taxonomy, I could even create several directories, each with its own custom fields: a company directory, a people directory, a product directory..... correct ?

Examples sites welcome.

2) Can Drupal be used for a big files (50mb) download directory ?

3) Is drupal login universal ? I mean, if a user register, will he have access to ALL authorized site modules and features ? I ask this because at looking at another CMS, I noticed that some modules, like calendar, had another user base forcing user to register again.

4) I was very happy to discover the drupal rss aggregator module, which would take several souces, and, if my understanding is correct, merge them into a single, chronological feed. I looked at the out backend syndication of this feed, and noticed it linked directly to the articles aggregated, for example, a google news. Wouldn't it be possible, to have links in the backend link to MY drupal site indivudual page of that news, containing the title and resume it has aggregated with a link to the actual news ? So when a site would syndicate the content I have aggregated trough drupal, all links would lead to my site for that news. This would create much more traffic. I don't know if I made myself clear. Any example of aggregation are welcome.

Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone has created an affiliate site with Drupal? Meaning, using a datafeed from Commission Junction or LinkShare to generate pages. I'd love to take advantage of Drupal's other features such as forums/blogs in the future - but right now I need to mass-generate pages based from a spreadsheet. Is there a module that will allow Drupal to do this?

Hi,

I have been using mambo on my site for almost a year now. I have a thing with web standards, so I actually rewrote the entire mambo core to put out accessible and valid XHTML 1.0 Strict markup.
Now that terrible markup that mambo produced was one problem, but search-engine-friendly url appeared to be much more difficult, Mambo is a great system, but due to it's problems with itemID and sefreltoabs function it's a very unstable CMS.

That's why I'm considering to migrate to Drupal, but is Drupal right for me? How does Drupals url rewriting component work? How does it determine the url if a content item is listed under different categories.. I don't want duplicate content in the SE listings.

I noticed Drupal doesn't use intro text/body text like mambo does, is it still possible to migrate my intro texts to something that does roughly the same? I saw a Drupal site use headlines that appeared to do the same as my intro texts.

Another point where Mambo disappointed me is flexibility, I have my site divided in 5 sections, with each a bunch of categories. I wanted to add custom templates to certain categories but it gives conflicts with the templating engine, mambo can't handle it. can Drupal help me out here?

The editor, I love my content editor in mambo, MosCe. It has many image manipulation options and and paste-from-word, spell check, numerous handy tools. Does Drupal have something comparable?

Can you allow the user to set his own password right away when he registers? Do you need a mod for that?

The way it works now is very user unfriendly, I still haven't figured out how to change my password ^_-

Hi,
I want to build a small site. It contains mostly static pages (content and menu not changeable) with individual layouts. Drupal should come in for 2 blogs, a gallery and a newsletter.
My approach is building a static site (just plain HTML/CSS) and integrate Drupal only at the necessary places. Now I've read that this is not a good idea?
So what do you recommend? Is Drupal suited for this or is it just oversized?

Thanks!
orbi