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I am interested in transferring all of my personal content, courses, etc. from Blogger to Drupal. Has someone come up with a way to do this as of yet? Thanks in advance for any information.

Hi all,
I've been researching Drupal in the last few days and it seems like a very powerful system that meets my requirements quite well. However, there's one thing that's not clear to me:

I want to design a very much not-Drupal-looking site, i.e. simple header bar w/ menu, simple content area, no blocks. The site will consist of different sections like articles, photo galleries, an about page, etc. Each section should have a somewhat proprietary layout/design, i.e. not all of the site's pages should be based on the same template.

I know someone who is writing a book and wants to put it up online soon. I'm wondering if Drupal, with its collaborative book feature, may be useful for this. He wouldn't need collaborating capability, as he is the only person writing the book. Also, I don't think he'd need forums, polls, blogs, or any of Drupal's other features, just the ability to get a book up online in a hierarchically-organized manner and with the ability to edit its content whenever he wishes to do so.

Hi. I'm looking closely at D for use on a client site. What I need is a tool that will support a site with these features:

1. Public blog (no comments)
2. Some public content (whitepapers, information about the company)
3. Some public discussion forums, registration required
4. Some private content, available only to a certain class of user (longer studies and presentations, newsletter archives)
5. Some private discussions, available only to a certain class of user
6. Eventual shopping-cart/transactional capability.

Hello, i'd like to get some information about whether or not Drupal would fit the bill for what I'm looking for in a CMS. I currently administer a Frankenstien-style site full of old CGI and PHP scripts, and I'm looking to upgrade to a CMS that can help me out with the following web site features:

1. Good, fast, stable forums. Our forums always get a good workout. I need to be able to restrict access to some forums according to the member's group, and have multiple groups able to view one forum. I need to hide some forums from users who do not have permission to access them, create new forums quickly and on demand. I would need to give administrator access to various people in some forums and not others.

2. Roster management. I need to be able to assign several attributes to registered members of the web site such as "guild member", "rank", "class", "race". I'd like to be able to list a portion of the site members in a roster format, with links to view a profile of that member.

3. Library/Story management. I need registered members of the web site to be able to submit Stories that, pending approval by a Story Admin, become listed in a Library page of sorts. The member would also have a list of the stories that he has written in his profile.

4. Profile management. I need registered members of the web site to have a profile that lists normal contact information for registered members, and in addition contains information that I mentioned in the "roster" section (race, class, etc). The profile would also have a photo associated with the member, and a list of the stories a member has published in the library section. In addition, the profile would also display a simple list of honors and awards earned.

Is it possible to untar in Windows? If so, how?
We need to uncompress the Drupal files for installation.