Before you start

I am going to be making a trading / exchange website where users can swap, sell, buy and trade items.

I came across this website http://www.readitswapit.co.uk

Could Drupal do something like this?

Just curious when, if ever, Drupal will work properly with MySQL in standards mode (also known as 'strict' mode).

We are looking at a total redesign of our site which is the number one golf website in the Southern Hemisphere.

www.iseekgolf.com

I would like some feedback about whether or not drupal can cover our needs. We have played with it a little so far and with a fair bit of tinkering we think it is possible to use for the whole site. It just requires a bit of a rethink of how things are done and a switch from how things are categorised currently eg move to taxonomy.

I'm trying to create a new block with no luck

user error: Duplicate entry '' for key 3
query: INSERT INTO boxes (title, body, info, format) VALUES  ('Hello', 'Hello', '', 1) in /home/egyarabi/public_html/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/egyarabi/public_html/drupal/includes/common.inc:384) in /home/egyarabi/public_html/drupal/includes/common.inc on line 192.

What does it supposed to be ?

This error occured during creating a new block

Can someone please post a couple of links to sites (or screenshots) that use epublish? I'd like to see it in action before I install it.

I create online communities.

I've used many different CMSs in the past. To date my favourite has been Postnuke.

I've had a pretty extensive look at Drupal and I like what I see so far.

I want a robust and flexible CMS that I can mould to suit the specific requirements of each site... without having to spend too much time on the nitty gritty, allowing for more time on creativity.

Before I jump straight into the deep end I need to know;

1.) How active the developer community is. Being part of an active community is a vital factor for me.

2.) How easy is to tweak things such as adding or removing steps to workflow, i.e. allowing users to post news immediately without clicking 'preview' first etc.

3.) How easy is it to pull apart the template and create something new and wonderful?

I would appreciate any extra comments from people.

I'm looking to develop a couple of online communities, I love the idea of giving users their own blog page with their account ID.

Forum, Calendar, News, Polls & Gallery all need to be robust and customisable.

So far I have established the following (fill me in if you can)

Forum: Uses an inbuilt forum (the one we're using now!)
Calendar: Has an integrated module(s)?
Gallery: I notice there is an integration module for memento's gallery which will be great.

This is one of the most impressive drupal sites I've seen to date: