Before you start

We recently installed the stock Drupal 4.6.3 for testing. I must say
I'm impressed that the installation is only 1.85 MB, compared to the
stock 8.6 MB for Mambo!

We've been running a rather heavily customized Mambo-based site
for a couple of months, at www.wethethinking.com. We're not all
that satisfied with Mambo or the present site, so would like to con-
sider alternatives.

I've been studying the Drupal handbooks. It looks promising. But perhaps
the simplest way to decide whether to proceed is to outline our needs
(which we understand well) and see if Drupal (which Drupalians understand
well) seems a good fit for MOST or (dare we ask?) ALL our wishes.

www.wethethinking.com is a philosophical/science oriented magazine/forum. It's principal design criteria are:

• Size: No page can exceed 800x600, i.e., no bottom scroll bars for 800x600 users.
• Front page: Consists of header, left menu, and articles.
• Articles: Articles (with pictures) laid out with MS Frontpage editor, then pasted as HTML by WTT staff. I see that full HTML is possible, but the automatic line and paragraph breaks are a problem. Any easy way to disable that and just allow straight HTML for magazine articles? A module available?
• Articles: We make heavy use of photos in magazine articles. Would we simply upload them to the site and insert a standard short link in the article? Mambo uses an inserted "{mosimage}" in the story, and stores position, flyover caption, photo outline, caption, etc., in the database. I suppose we'd have to do that manually in the HTML with Drupal?

I just installed drupal for my site a couple of months ago. Anyway, today I saw that xoops website has been hacked. My question is will this happen to drupal, too? I'm concern about the security because I'm not an advanced programmer of drupal plus I don't maintain my website daily. I only do it on my free time. What's going to happen if it gets hacked? I know the best that I can do are back-ups. Still, I want to be reassured. thanks.

Hi.

I am considering Drupal as a CMS to a new website we are going to put up.

It consists of 3 different main sections, and each of these sections have their own sub-sections which is not supposed to be viewable from the other two main sections. That means a menu only for each of these sections. is this possible?

Also: the head of the page (ie: the logo and some "meta" menues; about etc. are the same for all the sites pages no matter what section is this possible when at the same time using the structure described over.

Hello,

Thinking about migrating a site I built a few years ago to a CMS to allow their managers to edit content in places, but not change design. Wondering if Drupal would work.

Existing site is http://www.giantdipper.com and we have been using Contribute, but not without issues.

This would be my first venture into a CMS. Primary considerations are:
Ease of use – content change must be easy for non-technical people
Friendly URLs
Avoiding the “CMS Look”

I currently havea website - warpfiction.com and was wondering if people think drupal would be a viablke way to expand it? I have used drupal many times but I don't know if it will supply the desired functions to my site?

My main conern would be what modules would I need to to have a site exactly like my current one? Then I would be able to worry about expansion?

I would like to use a web-based to maintain our Software Documentation. The advantages we need is multiple people writing and modifying/updating the documentation. In other words, a tool which can help us collaborate.

OUTPUT: We would need the following output of the content.

1. Some module should let us create a TOC style like hyper-linked help file. All files should be statics HTML.
2. OPTIONAL: Generate a very similar PHP output.
3. We can have a DB driven online version of the same help. But (1) would ship with the product. so needs to be a Flat HTML.