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Hello. I am considering using Drupal for a fiction archive of not only my stories but the stories of my friends as well. I would like to give users the ability to upload their stories chapter by chapter with relative ease as well as sort the stories by genre, rating, characters, ect. In addition, I would like for people to be able to leave reviews for the stories with the possibility that the author can reject a review if its spam. 99% of the users who will be uploading various stories are not computer savvy so I am looking for something that is not confusing for the end user.

Hi
I've built a couple of database driven sites in the past, totally from scratch.
Now for my next project, a marketplace website, i want to use a framework.
I've looked at different frameworks (drupal, joomla, zend, symphony,..), drupal is the one i like most.
But as a newbie in drupal it's still not very clear for me how to build a marketplace website (something like ebay, or the dutch marktplaats.nl)
Maybe by making "content type" for each category of products?

I need to build a company admin site with different levels of user access:
- Users create a form to collect internal data (call it a survey), store each survey as a data record
- allow advanced administration and access to the surveys such as a hierarchical access something like clerk, office manager, regional manager, super admin.. so that access to view, edit, delete data collected, export the data to excel, etc can be controlled..

I am creating a select list with 350 options and only 277 is showing. Is there any limitation on select list (float) on number of entries or characters? Each entry is 25 - 50 characters long.

Appreciate any help or advise to fix this issue or offering some alternate way to store so many options. Thanks

I am about to rebuild a site, starting from scratch (although content will be migrated from old site) - with Drupal 7. I need some suggestions for modules and suchlike. These are the sort of things I'd like to do:

* Want non-expert users to create/edit pages in areas under their control (currently using TinyMCE)

* Want users (non-logged in ones) to be able to submit information by filling in forms that get emailed to appropriate recipients (current site uses webforms)

* Want to be able to set up areas on the site that are only accessible to logged in users - and even have areas that are only accessible to specific groups of users/roles

* Want to be able to manage a number of databases (e.g. list of officers, list of events, list of authorised marshals) on the site - accessible to (depending on the information) - visitors (e.g. they can go to a page that displays a list of events, derived from the database), logged in users (view database info in table or form view, modify database in table/form view, depending on permissions)

We are thinking of a website redesign for our municipality website. We are currently using a commercial CMS. We are budgeting approximately $70,000 for the redesign and migration to Drupal. What kind of costs for ongoing outsourced maintenance, upgrades, support, etc? Is there a percentage we can use as a basic guide?

We have limited internal IT support and no programming abilities as well as no track record of CMS expertise with OSS.