Before you start

I have an existing website and domain (www.godsong.us). I am using iframes and background pictures to give the site the "look and feel" that we've agreed upon, but man...this thing is a nightmare to maintain.

I stumbled upon Drupal this morning, and it looks fantastic! But my question is: will I be able to use Drupal and maintain the current "look and feel" of our website?

I was wondering if anyone has drupal running on plesk 7.5 for windows? Or maybe what server software and control panels would be recommended. Drupal is the solutions we are looking at for our college website and I just want to make sure that the servers software I use will be the best for drupal.

Hello,

I'm looking at using Drupal as a solution for storing various media files for a course we're running at the school I work at. Assuming that storage space is not going to be an issue, can someone give me an idea if Drupal is a good solution?

Basically, we want students to be able to upload and store audio, video, images, and text to Drupal. Others students would then be able to download them. It would be nice to be able to include descriptions and (folksonomic) tags for items as well.

We would be using Drupal as the front-end for students to do the uploading (and tagging/describing) as well as for others to find/search for items, comment on them, and download them.

Furthermore, we're very interested in RSS capabilities--allowing users to subscribe to a feed that would notify them when new items have been published. And granularity of feeds would be nice (a feed for each user, for a particular tag, etc.)

Basically, we're trying to run our own mini-OurMedia site. We like OurMedia but have real concerns about it's reliability for this kind of activity in a course. When I started looking around for solutions that we could install and manage I realized that OurMedia was actually built on Drupal, and I wondered if it might be the solution for us.

I've done some preliminary poking around on the drupal site, and it seems to me the best modules for what we're trying to do with regards to audio and video, specificall, are really only available for the cvs version. I gather that folks would not recommend running the cvs version as a production version.

I will be creating a site that functions similarly to Etsy.com - but for a smaller niche market (and no fancy Flash), and I'm wondering if I can get it done with drupal...

Here is an itemized list of most of the functionality I will need:

I'd like 2 levels of users - those who sell items (with a membership fee), and those who don't sell items (all registered users have access to all other site functions)

Which MySQL tables should be shared if multisites need share users?

Searching forum one example can be found:

setting.php
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/database';
$db_prefix = array(
'default' => 'main_',
'users' => 'shared_',
'sessions' => 'shared_',
'role' => 'shared_',
'authmap' => 'shared_',
'sequences' => 'shared_',
);

and another example is:

I have available under the content management Drupal 4.6. My site is already up and running. Can I install / use Drupal instead of a product like Macromedia Contribute 3.

Is installation easy? I am not a programmer and paid to have my site www.ntrinsic.com developed.

Thanks in advance for any advice offered.

Michael