Before you start

I tried to download today some modules and it gives me 403 forbidden and after this i tried to download drupal itself but gives me the same please help urgent

I want to develop a application for a which will have a content type MEMO. Approximately 5000 users. All can create unlimited nodes of content type MEMO. Which will have following fields.

Im planning to build a website with these features
- Hierarchical content:
- Countries
- regions
- cities etc...
- Interests
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Articles

- Super users can add their own business cards like hotel, car rental with some text, links and images
- Regular (with account) users can write reviews of these business cards, write articles, have access to forum

- Landing pages
- Country
- Region
- Hiking

Dear all,

I am planning on using drupal to build a content management system for schools.

Some of the features that I thought of are:

Forum
E-mail
grades
announcements
uploads
language support (FR, EN)

The system will target: parents, public, professors and of course students

Hello everyone,

I'm completely new to Drupal, however, I some experience with CMS from the past. To be honest, I haven't created our had any involvement with the development process of a website in years. I was browsing around looking at different types of websites built with Drupal and I came across adsoftheworld. I will be building a website similar to adsoftheworld. Does anyone know of a theme/module that I can use to achieve this in the meantime as I learn Drupal?

First of all, excuse my poor english.
Second, let me say that I don't know anything about CMSs.

My problem is as follows:

I must set up a site with a single domain, in which various editors/publishers/sellers can register themshelves, and after a subsequent approval by a "super-admin", they can begin to create their own content (forums, shopping, wikis,. .. etc), and distinguished from the other publishers (maybe different databases, or tables, or sub-folders for data)...
They will have probably different themes (or not), but, of course, they will share same site software.

Anonymous visitors should not need (if possible) login to visit the main site, nor any other publishers sub-sites.
They should have access to each of the sub-sites via menu and/or, if possible, via a general search by keyword (Lucene or equivalent) that return results from different sub-sites in a unique search operation. Clicking over theese results will give visitors acces to the different sub-sites...
That is, the content should be separated in different repositories, but I need search all of them in a single operation...

When I explained this I have said, "According of the characteristics of the different contents, the need for different user roles (authors and visitors), .. etc ... What you need is a CMS ....".