Before you start

I currently have a number of sites that I have built using mambo and joomla. My friend is starting a non-profit organisation and has asked me to set up a website for them. She has very specific requirements that at present mambo/joomla can't meet. Someone on the forums there pointed me in the direction of drupal but it isn't clear to me from the documentation I've read whether this meets the requirements or not.
So my question is, can drupal handle these requirements?
1. The site will have a public front page but it is essentially a community site and membership of the community is by invitation only.

2. Access to all other areas of the site is for members only.

3. Ideally members should be able to invite new members but it is acceptable to have this function only available to the admins if necessary.

4. A member should be able to define a new "Project Area", that member will become the moderator of that project area.

5. The Project area moderator can invite other community members to join their project for collaboration purposes... only people who have joined the project (and site admins) should have access to the project area.

6. Each project area will have a discussion forum, a blog, a document repository (with a comment feature for each document if poss) and if possible a live chat room.

7. Each member would be able to see the projects they moderate and the projects they have joined in their profile but this information is not available to other members.

I'm trying to figure out the difference between a blog and a forum post, and why I should have either, or both on my community website. Any suggstions, or a general clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I am looking at Xaraya and Drupal

Whereas i have found that Xaraya can do a lot.

I want to know if Drupal can do the following.

1). Display Small Blocks which should be arranged in any order in the website.
For e.g. left column, right column, Center and inside the main Center Block i need (Center - Center ) , (Center - Left) and (Center -Right ) etc. etc.

Hello all, I am trying yet another application to handle my main site.

I run a fairly successful forum site right now that is based on vBulletin technology and am very interested in Tamarian's integration.

I run a videogame forum and like any large forum only sites we want to branch out into an actual site. Right now we are using Subdreamer, but it has a lack of some features that we really need to make our site stand out.

namely we are looking for a great front page to paste all the current video game happenings to. Users could submit news, and really we just want it to look professional. Maybe a navigation column down the side and the latest news with short descriptions and images on the home.

We'd also like to be able to create polls that users could vote on using the vbulletin integrated accounts.

What we eventually want to do though is reviews. We'd like to create a page that has sections for things like Xbox 360, Gamecube, Playstation 2, PC and have a review for each game that is linked to that.

Honestly I can tell this is going to be alot of work to get it the way we want it, but do you believe that Drupal is versatile enough for what I am hoping to achieve?

Or does anyone have any good examples of sites that post news, and use a reviews system?

Thank you for taking the time and listening to me babble on. I hope Drupal can power the site I'm wanting to create.

Hi folks,

I just figured out how to add a flash header into the page.tpl.php page. However, I now have this empty space between the header and the rest of the content on the page. How can i fix this?

YOu can take a peak here: www.madsoleh.com (in it's beginning phase..so it contents is still default)

Thanks,
Rusty :)

I need to build a site that consists almost entirely of a number of small (3-5 page) teacher/class sites. Each teacher must be able to maintain their own class calendar, upload files to their own album/gallery and run a news page on their "site." Is this something Drupal can support? Are there modules (plugins?) already created that will help me build this? I have limited experience with CMS but can usually get by with the help of some documentation or tutorials. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!