Before you start

Hi there,

Some of my friends are thinking of making a website where we can post galleries of our photography. In addition to the free, public artwork, we'd like to have a "paywall" or some kind of subscription/member only section where there will be higher-quality work, special features, and other stuff not available to the public.

Additionally, we'd like to offer digital galleries for individual sale and immediate download (high-rez textures, bump maps, themes, etc).

I know this is a too generic question and I also know you can use Drupal as a Framework more than a simple CMS/Blog system, but at the moment I'm a bit lost.
I could explain in details the target I would like to reach with my website and I know is not very fair to give a link and say "go and look", but this will be for sure more self-explainatory than 1000 words.

I need to create a site that acts like this zvs.com/visas.php

I can imagine how to develop this from scratch with php, building a DB, creating a logical workflow with conditions and tests to evaluate forms and to generate a final reply to the users. For sure there are many other aspects that have to be considered and not just the "select and search" phase where the user select the origin and destination country, but I would like to understand if I can use Drupal to avoid reinventing the wheel (creating all the back-end for administer country lists, FAQ, etc.). For sure the answer is yes, you can do it, since I saw a lot of more complicated workflow in sites out there (here they have a lot of serach/filter funcition with custom workflow: http://openroadautogroup.com/ ), but unfortunately I can't take a look at the code and at the moment I cannot figure out how they managed this with Drupal concepts.

I have installed the Country module that let me admin a list of countries... but now...

Hello,

I have three questions about the best strategies to adopt when designing my new site in Drupal:

It's going to be a community website for a group of co-workers to advertise and swap their work shifts. Workers have grades (e.g. Team member, Supervisor) and can work at a number of different work locations (e.g. Head office, Regional office, temporary office). Both these properties are going to be user profile fields. (e.g. User A's profile records that she is a Head office Supervisor while User B's profile records that he is Regional office Team member).

Workers can only swap shifts with other workers of the same grade, but they can swap between different work locations. Once the workers agree on a swap they set it up outside the system. i.e. The site is only for advertising shifts available for swap and making initial contact with a co-worker. It doesn't have to handle formal re-allocation of the shifts once a swap takes place.

First question:

Hi

I would like to own a website like youtube

and so many people told me that I need drupal to do that.

but, I would like to known which are the requirements of my hosting,
so I can ask them if I can do it easly.

Hi everyone,

I am newly employed in a company that runs a website + backend which is, honestly, worse coded than nearly everything I have seen, done or worked with in my whole life as a software developer :)
As there are some security issues on top, i hardly suggested to rebuild the whole Application, therefore I assigned myself to make a concept (Something that was never done before in this company :D).

Now and I am trying to figure out if I should pick up Drupal or if a Framework like Zend or Symfony will work out better for us. It is really a hard guess for me. Coming from a coding & database background I tend to like a Framework solution because I kinda feel 'home' where I can smash my commands in an editor. On the other hand I really see the advantages of Drupal too and while playing with it I realize its power and the requirement of time I will need to fully understand it...
(We a have bilingual page with a small shop, some other payments, a lot of text content that is edited by our backoffice, and some standard stuff like fileuploads)

Long text small sense: Can u please help me with some fundamental questions so I can start to understand better how Drupal is working and how it will fit my needs? :D

Questions:
1. Is it correct that me and my collegues probably dont have to write 1 single line of Code by our own?

Hi

I recently installed drupal 7 and thought I would install a few plugins for e-commerce and a little chatroom, before long I had installed several modules, more than 30 I'd say and was facing a big wall of modules, dependencies, this, that wan't installed etc etc

Nightmare.

How easy is it keep ahead of all that stuff? When new updates come out what happens if they have dependant modules? DO they get updated as well?

Cheers