Before you start

Does Drupal support pictures in articles, or in blogs?

And is there a picture manager anywhere for 4.3.2?

We have just set up a GForge installation devoted to support social projects for free (interested? you're invited).

Some of the first projects to be settled there need a website powered by Drupal. Each project has everything needed to create a new Drupal system, so we could have a dozen Drupal sites in a couple of weeks.

Hi Everyone,

We have just downloaded a competitors system but now unsure if this does indeed meet our needs. I hope someone can advise and although not technical, I will try and be as clear as possible about aims.

We have a site with a high visitor ratio and want to offer further topic related information/sites.

We are employing expert editors/jouralists to manage their specific topic/subjects and be able to upload their information (text/images etc)to their 'site' which is linked from our home page. The different topics (such as finance, travel, gardening and the list goes on)needs to be independent from each other and managed seperatly from each other... in other words complete ownership is by our trusted editors to keep their information fresh and updated. Each site will/must have their own menus bars, providing for sub categories related to that topic to then link to another site pertinent to that sub topic etc. For example there will be different URLs like:

www.mydomain.com/finance
www.mydomain.com/finance/banks (being another site linked from finance)
www.mydomain.com/travel
www.mydomain.com/travel/hotels

Once the visitor browses through to the first link (lets say Finance) then this page will be totally finance orientated with sub-topic links coming off this one and again managed by different editors. ad infinitem so to speak. Advertiser are then attracted to thier sectors (topic) seperatly from other topic sites. All though, coming off the same domain. The overall control of this will be with the individual editors, but with one overall 'master administrator' (for another word)

With drupal, could I set up a site where anyone can create a blog of their own, and have a simple urls for their areas like

www.bigdog.org/ricksblog.php
www.bigdog.org/marysblog.php (the extension could be anything)

On the front page could I have a list of all the blogger's names?

I'm looking to use Drupal for Japanese sites. I'm wondering if there is a list of sites already using it or if there's discussions of multibyte issues going around already.

Thanks,
P

I am looking for a CMS that will allow me to integrate its functionality with my well-developed relational database applications. (well- is in the sense of lots rather than good:-)