Before you start

Can Drupal setup access levels which will only display the menu item/page to the certain level user.

1 - public content
2 - Registered Level (default after user has registered)
2 - Registered Level 2
3 - Registered Level 3

It would be okay if higher levels can see lower level content, but lower level users would not be able to view either the content or button (or both) of the higher level.

Thanks.

I have an account on Brinkster.com and they are mainly an asp server, but they do allow PHP and MySQL. Is it worth for me to start installing Drupal or am I just wasting my time? Does anyone have an account with them running Drupal here? If it's not a viable solution, which provider do you reconmmend? Thanks!

i have this website that i'm not too happy with. i'm sick of making a static website where if i weant to change the site look i have to upload the whole site via dreamweaver. don't get me wrong i LOVE dreamweaver but they have no CMS is worth using whatsoever.

my main reason for using XOOPS is the wbloggar. i absolutly abhor having to do anything via the web browser. HATE IT. so it's currently between XOOPS, Drupal or using Wordpress and customizing my own WBloggar style ftp client and learn php. which i should do anyway ;)

i'm wondering if i can do this with XOOPS.

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the look
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i want to change my current website to a dynamic website http://mr-potatoes.com/news.html (warning some content not family or work friendly). i like the current layout but there is more that iw ant to add to it. mostly the theme of it. i like live journal's theme engine or whatever it's called. i'm pretty sure it's all CSS. where i can have a complex image bordering the table and the table itself will lenghthen if i type a certain amount.

i have the links on the left side of all the web pages which isn't too big of a deal. i've ssen it be done on many a blog style site. but can i keep it the way that i have i going as is?

and instead of a archive links on all the pages how about in one certain page? will i be able to hack that and be able to do a certain type of archiving. i'm not a fan of a monthly or weekly basis of auto archiving. i prefer it to archive in a certain fashion and wouldn't mind figuring out how to do this. i am a C++ programmer and i don't think it'll take me too long to figure it out :)

I used Drupal a few years ago and was very impressed.

I've got to create a news site and I want it to work pretty much like www.fark.com.. so the news post shows up like this:

[IMAGE_FOR_SUBJECT] - The News Headline -
[# comments] [posted_by]

And maybe the option to group the days posts by Day, so that it would say 'Monday' above all of mondays posts etc..

About 25+ links on the front page as well.

The option for users to submit links..

Maybe even a 'top submitters' page?

All,

I'm sure this has been done, but I can't find a good HowTo on the subject, so here goes.

I have my own Drupal site running on my own server. http://www.warrenernst.com/.

1) Only registered users can post comments
2) I can ban users from making comments/ban IPs
3) You can make parent headlines and subheadlines, for example:

NEWS: Mac buys Microsoft
---HAL'S OPINION: Bad idea

If Drupal can do all of these things, I will likely use it.

Another question, does it have bulletin board integration like nePHP?