Before you start

I'm starting to flesh out some ideas on a new project, and I wanted to get a feel on which way to start planning it and what CMS to go for. As Drupal offers Multisite and Domain Access, I'm not sure which would be best suited to my needs. Let me explain what I'm looking at building.

• example.com would be a central domain.
• product1.example.com would be a subdomain focusing on a single porduct
• product2.example.com would be another subdomain, themed differently, focusing on a different product
• Additional subdomains would be created for further products.
• In the future, domains such as product1.com may be obtained to use alongside product1.example.com. The functionality would be unchanged, but the domain name must be preserved.

Each product page would use similar modules, but could potentially have modules that are unique to them. Furthermore, each product subdomain could inherit relevant content from the parent example.com (such as some news articles.)

Hello.

I work in communications for the Council of the Isles of Scilly - a small group of islands off the west coast of England. We are the UK's smallest Local Authority, meaning we have an important and wide remit, but with a small population.

Website wise, this obviously creates a pretty unique challenge. We need to be able to offer a website that offers all the interactivity and features of a modern Council website (in terms of paying online, sorting out appointments and collections etc) but on a smaller budget and for a smaller unique community. There are also issues of compliance with data protection and processing laws.

We've spent a far amount of time researching this, looking into the different options available. Our current website: www.scilly.gov.uk is now 11 years old. So we are looking at a revamp.

We think Drupal holds the answer to this. Our hope is that by using an open source CMS we can break up the website into much smaller projects, contracting to smaller companies to do inidvidual elements of a much larger website.

Please note, this project is still in its infancy. I am hoping in the future to update this thread as progress is made, but currently this is more of a plan between myself and the people in IT. It is still yet to be voted on, achieve a budget etc.

So, there were three points to starting this forum:

Someone was asking me the other day about how to build a directory site for small hotels/B&Bs ect..

I mentioned Drupalrooms to them, but it just occurred to me I have no idea if DRs is designed for a single website or can it be configured for multiple facilities or locations?

Couldn't really tell from the project page.

:)
JM

Hello,

I'm creating a new website addressed to a niche community. This is my biggest project, so I'm a little confused. I have no idea which CMS will be the best option for me.

I'm considering three options - Drupal, WordPress with BuddyPress and a dedicated solution (if all else fails). It must be simple, fast, flexible and user-friendly solution, so all other suggestions are welcome.

Ok, let's have a look at functionality that I need:

0. Extended user profiles:
Nothing more advanced than standard Drupal instance, but including user's activity stream (i.e. XXX changed his avatar, XXX created a forum post, etc...).

1. Forums:
Nothing special. I only need possibility to create hidden categories.

2. Games library/catalog:
Classic game library - including informations about game, screenshots, rating stars, comments and "playing now/played" button (user can choose - all selected games are showed in his profile).
To all of games linked selected news and articles - staff must be able to choose it when creating a new content or adding a new game.
Is it possible to do in Drupal using books/taxonomy?

3. Games ranking:
A part of games library.
Displays a list of games added to the library, sorted by popularity or rating, with latest stat changes (decrease, increase, no changes).

I need help with decisions on the “best” approach to redesigning a local government website, http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/ . I have an advisory group that will help select a theme, etc. But I will be responsible for actual implementation and support although I have application and server administration help. We have definitely decided to go Drupal; and I have taken a few lynda.com Drupal courses and spent many hours exploring drupal.org and looking at Drupal sites, particularly government sites. I have css and html experience, taken classes in those topics and maintain our current non-CMS site. That’s my background and here’s my dilemma!

Hi there

I was running a quite simple Drupal 5-6 blogging web site in the past, now I am thinking about relaunching it with more community focus (on Drupal 7 or something else) and here's one feature I would really be interested in.

Is it somehow possible to make node comments BE forum comments?

So that user could comment on the site and act of posting the first comment would automagically create a topic on the forum. Then users can continue discussing on the forum or in the node comments - it will be just the different views onto some discussion.
That should help a lot with getting the discussions on the forum started: forum will not feel empty, some topics will just be not related to the nodes.