Before you start

Hi,

I used to do Typo3 sites a lot and decided to try out Drupal but I'm missing out the fce's (flexible content elements) of templavoila (an extension for easy-templating).

Basically what I'm using it for is to create 'containers' or boxes or 2-column content where you can insert or drag&drop contents inside it. This is extremely useful for clients who do not know html.

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Recently i am creating forum at drupal. Each time when i add forum it's getting slower. After i added 100 forum, everytime when i try to add it'll take almost 1 minute to create new forum. Anyone have solution for this one.

I have a fairly big project coming up soon.

I also have a bit of experience with Drupal now, but only the Drupal 6 version.

Now that Drupal 7 has been out for a while, do you think
the time is right to choose D7 ahead of D6 from the get go?

Cons are that all the contrib modules that I know and love may not
have been ported completely bug free to D7 yet.

I'm looking for a field type for Drupal 7 that will allow a user to enter an address when creating a new node, have a google map update to that address, then drag the marker to tweak the location.
I've seen something like this for D6 but I would prefer to create the site using Drupal 7.
Any ideas?

I am considering drupal for a proposed site. Amongst other things the site needs to offer documents for download (eg pdfs etc) only to logged-in members, does elgg support download management control of this nature? Thanks.