Before you start

Hi everyone, thanks for reading.

I'm new to IT but I know that I want to use Drupal. I need a website that will have a forum and a 'drop-box' type facility where users can upload/download files (just Word, pdf and ppt files). As well as this, I'd like to have a fortnightly magazine embedded into it, which will be discrete enough to use on a tablet or phone, and be emailed to subscribers, plus the usual social media bits, and a few info pages which I'll update. And possibly some space for ads.

I have an old website that I'd like to redesign and use Drupal as the cms. I am totally new to Drupal so forgive my ignorance. Is it possible to create a 'cluster' page (group of teachers) that would allow them to post daily homework assignments. Here's an example http://pickeringschool.org/cluster61.php?action=homework
the teachers can login and add homework for the week for their classes (science, math, etc)
Can Drupal do something like this?

Hello

One of our client wants their site to be developed in Drupal. They have given us the SQL file of the site which is at present done in Joomla.

Can we use the same database while developing the site in Drupal? This is for a school site with different options like student / parent login, Alumni, testimonials, calendar, events, photogallery etc which is already in the database. po

I have the SQL file with me and using this is it possible to redo a newsite?

thank you
Sathish

Hello,

I have built a simple school parents contact system in raw PHP. This includes a list of users and their schools. I would like to add forums and maybe blogs, wikish etc. There is a high focus on student privacy.

There will be dozens of schools, and most forums should be restricted to just members of that school. There will be hundreds of users, it must be possible to drive access out of the contact system, hopefully without too much hairy PHP programming. (This may involve copying data into the Drupal system.)

Each school with their own designated adminstrator who should be able to moderate posts, and ideally create forums for that school.

Ideas how to go about doing this would be most welcome. In particular which of the many modules I should be looking at, and what I will need to program myself. It looks like base Drupal has no authorization mechanisms.

One particular requirement that I have is to let people Subscribe to a forum. In that case they should get an email (or digest) when anyone posts to that forum. I could not find that in Drupal forums. (I am talking about the forum, not comments on users postings.)

Hi all,

Looking a capabilities in regards to corporate intranets. Would love to know if we could use Drupal to facilitate:
1) the creation of user-generated content (blogs, wikis, file uploading)
2) commenting on blog posts etc.

If this isn't doable, is it possible to integrate tools such as Yammer?

Thanks for the help.

Am about to instal Drupal 7.17 using Softaculous, courtesy of Host Papa, that should be straight forward.

Really looking forward to deleting my previous builder and joining the Drupal World.

So just before I have this pleasure, I would be grateful if a kind soul could spare the time to answer my concerns/misunderstandings about a Google/SEO related issue.