Before you start

Hi,

I am completely new to content management systems and have really just stumbled across Drupal. Hopefully someone in the know can tell me whether to spend time learning this tool for my next project.

Hi,

I'm trying to build a content management system to collect and display games and how to play them (think hop scotch, jacks, duck duck goose, etc.) I've been looking everywhere for a php script that could handle this, without much luck. The closest scripts I could think of were recipe scripts, catalog scripts, or review scripts, but none of those work as well for this as I would like. So the search has brought me to CMS and to Drupal.

When I look at the printer friendly version of the Admin Guide, the chapter levels are all screwed up.

Specifically, it looks like all levels of subchapters (eg. h2, h3, etc) get displayed as H1 level chapters. It makes the guide very confusing to read.

I don't see any documentation related forum. Where should I report this? The author Heather is not accepting emails.

Hi
When I post articles, I want to have 2 columns instead of one.

Is that possible?
and How?

Thanks

I am considering using drupal. I am wondering if anyone has experience with installing drupal at a webhostprovider. I can imagine there will be some trouble with edits in /etc/php.ini. Is it possible to install an d use drupal if you do not have complete (root) acces to a console?

There is a lot of info already posted here about this type of arrangement, but I know the replies are generally the same and way over my head too.

Here is something I was told from one of the SEO's Boards and it helped me look at the subject from a prespective I could understand. These guys are Search Engines fire fighters :).

I hope this helps someone - it helped me make a very important decision.

"Without seeing the site, I don't know how wise that is; but consider two potentially big disadvantages before you commit.

1. Google sees sub.domain.com (or www.sub.domain.com) as a completely separate site - as separate as chalk.com and cheese.com - so if they are really that different, why not give them individual domains.com, and avoid any visitor confusion?

2. With all your stuff on one site (domain.com/widget1/, domain.com/widget2/ etc), you will have X incoming links. Divide the site into (eg) 10 separate domains, and each one will have, on average X divided by 10 incoming links. That could destroy your Google placing at a stroke, with almost ten times the work to optimize ten sites instead of one.

These are potential down sides - you need to decide how much they will apply to your site(s).

With most service providers, you can have either sub.domain.com or www.sub.domain.com - but it is important to be consistent, or you'll further subdivide your links; sub.domain.com and www.sub.domain.com are separate domains in Google's eyes.