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I have an 800 page website that I am looking to convert to Drupal. The current website does not use a content management system and has grown over time. I am planning to hire a Drupal development firm to do the conversion. Before doing so, I would like to be sufficiently knowledgeable on Drupal so that I can ask the right questions and have an idea of Drupal features I can use.

I searched Amazon for Drupal books and came up with the following list:

Hi, which module I can use for email contact form in (job application), I mean i made a content where you can post a job offer, how can I add email form where people can contact through the author of the content? I used to use email field but cannot add attachment (for example CV) ... dont know the code for develop module
please help

Hello, I'm starting to gather all the information pieces to start with my project and on of the things I need is to get Omniauth and corss SSO working together. My project is based on a Mediawiki + Drupal and I need complete cross multi auth. That is, having a Mediawiki in domain A and Drupal in domain B, a user that registers / login in to any of those domains will be registered and authenticated across both domains or subdomains at the same time. Did somebody do this already ? I would like to gather all the info possible to figure out how to achieve it.

I want to start a social networking site. Is Drupal is the best for it or should I go for other options.
Please suggest and guide me on the issue.
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A friend and I hired someone off odesk/elance to build a Drupal based website for us. We have 0 experience with Drupal. We purposely went with a US based firm but now I really understand why people go offshore now. This guy couldn't even get half of the features of the website working so I had to continually get rid of some items and try to settle for a non-working version of the website. The project got delayed by more than a month. The website is nowhere near finished and we're still trying to get some questions answered on where or how to fix glaring appearance issues.

can you give me some advice
about how i can get straight in there

and start programming