Before you start

hi I am a new Drupal user,
I am familiar with PHP and mySQL, and would like to set up a blog on my company's website..
is drupal a good solultion for me?
How would I go about installing? would it be just the basic drupal module?
I'm sure my server has to have php and mysql installed to do so right?
is there a good tutorial online for setting up a custom drupal blog?
thanks,

Happy holidays to everyone that celebrates holidays.. and just a plain hello to everyone else,,

I want to use duple but i need a versatile quiz or testing program.. right now i use something called phptest. it is now not being supported.. the authors website is gone for good and its basically a POS.. So.. if i could find a great quiz mod for drupal i would love to use it. Does anyone know of a good or even great testing/app mod??

Hope that made sense..

Thanks for taking the time listen..

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Hi everyone,

I'm a designer dabbling in web site development, mostly using open source applications (Mambo, Joomla and Subdreamer - integrates with phpBB). I'm comfortable with xhtml/css, and still a novice with php.

I have a project in mind for a site with a public relations focus. I need to create something that can be easily duplicated. That's how I stumbled on to Drupal over at opensourcecms.com .

I host, develop and maintain (among others) some websites for non-profits, and I'd be interested in moving them to a CMS to make it easier for others to help maintain them. The sites I'm looking to move now are:

http://www.theseriousroadtrip.org/
http://www.sexworkersproject.org/

Each site contains a certain amount of 'fixed' content, plus some pages based on one or more pieces of fairly 'structured' data. For instance, 'theseriousroadtrip.org' has sets of pages that relate to certain 'things' - member organizations, projects and so forth - so much of the content consists of an index page that lists the 'things' of a certain type, and then pages that show all the information about an individual 'thing'. The 'sexworkersproject.com' has primarily lists of things - links to resources, downloadable reports, etc. Currently, these are implemented using PHP/MySQL.

My goal would be to make it easier for a small number of contributors to add content to certain areas of the site. I don't really need blogging or forums (one of the sites has a private forum, but we already have a tool for that). I'm just looking for a way that users with little or no technical skill can easily add or update some material that follows a well-defined structure. I don't want to have to bend over backwards to fit my model to Drupal, or Drupal to my model, and I want to preserve the existing design insofar as possible.

Very new to Drupal

I downloaded a few modules to try out including freelinking and wiki. But they are both apparently input filters. While they do one aspect that I really like, they don't fit my whole intent. For one aspect of a site I'm building, I'd like to have an encyclopedia of sorts. I want users to be able to submit information about a topic. But I also want other users to have the ability to revise that content. And of course, revisions can get voted down and so on.

Basically, I need a true Wiki module.

I've been perusing the forums here for quite some time and have almost decided to use it to manage my content, news, userbase, etc. However, before I dive in I'm hoping to find the answers to these questions. My apologies if they have been asked many times but I am not quite sure how I would search for these.

Anyway, here they are:

1. If I create a design, and want to have a custom design for the front page, with another design for the other pages, is this possible? For example, say design1 would be the home page, with design2 being the inner page design.