Before you start

Hi!

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..

foosoo

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.