Before you start

I plan to build a network of city-websites where each website supports a community in a particular city.

The home page will display a 'city-selector'. Once a user has selected a city, most content (and I am aware that the problem hinges on what 'most' means) displayed on the website switches to content only relevant to the chosen city. When the user switches to a different city, content from that city will be displayed.

Basically there is shared data (user-records, logins, some user-generated content, FAQ's, store and other common pages) and pages that should only be displayed if a particular city is selected. I read something about the 'Domain Access Module' that might be able to help in a situation like this but I am not sure.

I see two ways of doing this:
a) A separate Drupal installation and database for each city
Each city runs on a separate database which makes shared data and global Drupal changes difficult.

b) One Drupal installation for all but with a city-filter respected by almost every installed Drupal module
This makes data sharing and global Drupal changes trivial but forces every Drupal module to be aware of an active city-filter (which might mean hacking up the PHP code of these modules which I would absolutely try to avoid).

Essentially, I want to create a site with similar functionality to foodspotting.com or

I'd be very grateful for advice on how to go about this, before I head down too many wrong paths.

I want to build a site where (hopefully!) thousands of users will sign up and post a few paragraphs of content. The content will also have a title, a brief description, one or more categories (part of a predefined, hierarchical taxonomy ) a couple of other fields and tags. Comments will be enabled.

Hello,
Can you help and tell me if can I create a portfilio like this http://crssrd.com/

Im not wondering about the design, but take a look at the jquery functionalities ajax loading pages !!
Is that quite easy to do with drupal ?
thank you

Hello,

Here is my question

in our intranet we have implement drupal7 web applications using apache-mysql-php. We have an sql server 2008 database which holds some data.

Can i connect from drupal7 to the sql server 2008 database and fetch data to the already developed application?

i don not want to install drupal7 in to sql server 2008.

i want to query sql server 2008 db from apache.

So I am just getting to know Drupal and am searching the forums and reading all I can, but I thought I'd get a jump start and maybe see if I can get a few questions answered...

I manage two websites where each site has a member's area, powered by Wordpress via aMember. Although slightly different, both websites share a lot of the same content.