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Is drupal supporting categories for my news etc. ?

Hi all

Im new to Drupal.

Basically i cant seem to make up my mind between drupal and Mambo.

I wanted to ask can i

Install Drupal once on my own server and then apply each database to each domain. Running multiple domains from one Drupal software but using diffrent database for each domain and its template and infor.

another question is does Drupal let you change every single page Meta Codes Including Codes H1 and H2 up to H6

Which is better for SEO Drupal or Mambo.

Does Drupal Save pages in HTML.

I've been working on a plan for campus-wide blogging at USC using Drupal and am hoping to get some feedback, especially on the technical implementation side.

Plan, documentation: https://w3.usc.edu/display/blogs/Home
Clickable partial wires: http://w3.usc.edu/blogs/site/

I'm working from the latest Drupal 4.6.0 release (am keeping a separate svn vendor branch, as I think some core modifications will be unavoidable)

The focus for the blogging functionality are:
* formal and ad-hoc group forming - I think this will be done primarily through the organic groups module
* fine-grained, layered, per-entry privacy control - throwing an interface on top of the by-node privacy
* emergent taxonomies (freetags) - looking at Julian's Folksonomy as well as the new 4.6 Folksonomy module

Is it possible to view the nodes under a certain category (taxonomy) that belong to a user specific blog or that belong to a user in a community. For example, instead of showing all nodes under a category for an entire site is there a way to show only the nodes in that category for a specific user or user blog. Also, when doing searches, is there a way to limit the searches so a search is only done for content created for a user specific blog or by a user.

Thanks in advance

I am building a site which is something like Alumni.net and Batchmates.com. But on a very small scale -- this would be a similar site for just one small town with five schools and two colleges.

So a CMS would have some of these functionalities:
(i) A customisable user registration form where people can also enter their graduation year, and other usual profile details.
(ii) Users will have to be in the form of groups.. a group for each school or college.
(iii) People should be able to search for other users.

I have been searching the forum but get real confused as far as the database support required for a multi site operation. Hopefully i can capture some helpful suggestion just for the database part. My questions are really this:

I want to set up a multi site. I install drupal and create a database for it. lets call it "drupalmain". Then i go and set up different modules and again for them run any appropriate database scripts for supporting them.