Before you start

How secure is Drupal compared to cpgnuke, phpnuke, mambo, etc...

I am considering Drupal for creating dynamic content subsites for my company's website. The goal is to have an informative site with heavy use of RSS feeds and new content, articles, etc.

Part of what the search engines care about, besides well named URL's, are the Title's and Headings of a page.

From playing with a Drupal Demo it seems its calling the heading from a file. Is there an easy way to set the H1 Heading of a page? Are there commands that override what Drupal wants to display?

I must create a website which will use a global template to define it's layout. This template should have some different regions. By example:

+----------------------+
| 1 |        2         |
+---+------------------+
|   |                  |
| 3 |        4         |
|   |                  |
+---+------------------+

Region 4 will contain the actual content of the site.
Now, the first problem is that for every page it should be possible to select a background image for region 1, 2, 3, and also change their width/height and padding.

The second difficulty is the actual content. This should also be defined by some kind of 'inner-template'. With 'inner-template' i mean the following:
To lay-out the content of every page you have some templates available, from which you choose one for every page. Those templates simply define content-blocks, which can be edited one-by-one with a wysiwyg editor. Two examples:

+---------------------+     +-------+-------------+
|                     |     |       |             |
+----------+----------+     |       |             |
|          |          |     |       +-------------+
|          |          |     |       |             |
|          |          |     |       |             |
+----------+----------+     +-------+-------------+

So in the end this should result in the following scenario for the site owner when he wants to add or edit a page:

hi,

i checked already the drupal handbook, on most of the content i do not have any access...
i checked my forum aswell for infos,

fact is my search moule in on but i get error messages like

warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in classes at offset 52 in /var/www/html/drupal/modules/search.module on line 258.

warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in classes at offset 143 in /var/www/html/drupal/modules/search.module on line 266.

any idea

Hi

I have a website for English Teachers in China, which they use to review their schools. A recent catastrophe has wiped my site out, and I basically decided to start over from scratch. I'm looking at drupal, xoops, phpnuke, and a few others as possibilities for my new site. I'd like to know a little more about any review capabilities drupal may have. What I'm basically looking for on my site is a system that will let me:

1. Have web users enter in their own reviews of schools, (after they register, of course).
2. Have the ability for people to go back and edit their reviews, and for people to leave comments after them.
3. Have a system to organize them, by chronology/alphabet/province/city/rating, etc, and also have a search system in place.
4. In the reviews, I would like to require them to rate their school based on a certain set of criteria, so that when they enter their review in, they would have to acknowledge certain aspects.
5. I would also like for people to be able to rate the review, so that when some pissed off idiot writes a stupid review, or a school comes in trying to impersonate a teacher, people can call them on it and that can be reflected when people are searching for reviews. (This one isn't crucial, but I'd like to see it happen).

Would any of the review modules available for xoops, (perhaps in combination with another search module or something), allow for that?

Hello!