Before you start

I want to develop a custom directory which contains profiles of people.
The profiles are not of people who are users of the site, rather the site will be used only by a handful of people who will use it as a directory containing profiles of a large number of people.

Hi,

We're considering moving an existing plain HTML site to Drupal.

The concern is that site pages are ranked very well with search engines and bring desired traffic to the site.

With Drupal, how would you best transition an existing website's static HTML page and retain the page's current (search engine friendly) URL?

Thanks in advance!

I am trying to build a site to sell standardized and customized mp3. I need to keep the product behind the public_html wall to keep people from being able to take them without permission, so I need a module that will fetch the file when the appropriate code, URL, or however is given by the payment company. Joomla! has a plugin called Phoca Download that more or less does what I want. Is there a Drupal equivalent or similar program?

I want to set up a local server, with Apache, mySQL, and PHP under Linux
(Debian). I would then be able to learn Drupal on a local machine that
was not (necessarily) on the internet (that is, was not serving as a
host on the internet). The local server would process PHP and mySQL as
would a server that _was_ on the internet, returning the results to the
local browser. I could then practice learning Drupal with no public
consequences.

Hello:

I am ready to start working with Drupal again. I built a Drupal 6 site in the past but it was a pretty basic site. Currently a project I am working on is WP site with different categories that I am hoping to bring over to Drupal. I am planning on starting with a starter theme. Is there a good one to start with?

The file download gets to about .9MB then times out after a few minutes. I've tried different browsers yesterday and today.

http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/openpublic-7.x-1.0-beta17-core.zip

Are there server problems at drupal.org or is this just in my corner or the interwebs?

Thanks,
Joe