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I saw this link on the showcase and someone had suggested this site as one of the best drupal sites ever... Are the modules that it uses customed designed? and how hard is it to make them?
Can anyone list some of the common and obscure modules that this site is using?

http://www.ecademy.com/index.php

I'm currently working on a new site for a client who has limited knowledge of web back-ends. We are working on a new site to meet the important business goal of being search friendly. His current site is not at all. My experience with cms systems is that they typically create barriers to bots but I'd like to give my client power and control over maintaining his own site and therefore would like to find a cms system.

Can someone please comment on how the drupal system works as a cms when seo is a goal?

Thanks.

Hi, I looked at the Drupal hosting list for a firm offering hosting services in the
US that will work with Drupal. I don't need more than 1G of space right, and
its a new site so it won't requre tens of gigs of traffic either. I am ok with
linux shared or dedicated hosting plan that support the right versions
of Php, mySQL and Apache. I need to be able to logon using shell, install
Drupal and work at both the shell level as well any webinterfaces the hoster
has provided. I am quite happy with unix shell level stuff though.

I checked out 1and1.com, because I found them listed on a Drupal page, called
them and got confused. I got the impression that they disallow Drupal running
shared Linux plans. He said something like you need to move to 'dedicated'. I
think the rep was wrongly informed, perhaps because he didn't know much about
CMSes.

1. My sense was that if a get shared account, I ought to be able logon,
install Drupal and test it out. Is this level OK for small non-profit/education business
type of operation?

2. Some webhosters are saying they will support a) one mySQL DB and
b) upto 100 MB of space for the DB. I don't expect the my project -- a journal --
is going to create and use up 100 MB in a year, but is that a major restriction?
Also does Drupal require more than mySQL DB?

3. Strictly speaking on a linux hosting plan (shared or virtual private server or dedicated)

I've narrowed a list of PHP 5.x - compatible CMSs down to this list.

What experiences have Drupal users had with these other systems, and how would you compare them as extensible, well-performing frameworks? Architecture, OOP/procedural style, usability and functionality are also important to me, in addition to the sense you have of their development teams and communities.

With Moodle (online course management system), it's not either-or, it seems there has been an effort to integrate Moodle and Drupal or Moodle and other CMSs.

hi
i started using drupal and i really wonder which will be the best way (module) to get this :
a site where different items could be added, incl. a discribtion, a picture, price and a link.

for example : the site should have a list of restaurants which could be sorted by price and category.

how do i get this ? i tried the book module, it looks not so bad but i wonder if this is the best way ?

ps : i wrote this in the pre installation cause most of those questions are here, so just think i havent installed yet ;)

okay, so here's a question: how difficult would it be to use the core of "aroundme" (see www.barnraiser.org for more) to implement a real social networking layer to a core drupal site?