Before you start

I need to create a private portal for a company. The site needs to be EXTREMELY secure. Basically what needs to be done:

There are 3 roles:

Employee
Client
Student

For each employ, they have to have the option to login to their account, and view their posted pay information (which will be viewed as an image).

For clients, they will be able to do the same as employ, except instead of pay information, they will access their receipt

For students, each student can view their individual time line etc...

I'm looking to build a website for a nonprofit that does annual fundraising walks, and they want all the sponsoring activity online. So, volunteers (walkers) can send friends/family to their personal fundraising page, and donors can commit to donating a certain amount based on how far the volunteer actually walked.

Then, when the walk is over, the nonprofit administrator (not the volunteer) enters the official number of miles walked per each volunteer, and then the donations are automatically charged.

Hi there!
im just started working with drupal 7. and I have only a slight idea of programming with php.... I want to realize a downloadable coupon (pdf) with unique safty code...

This is how i thought it might work:
1.) Set up a store with uebercart: downloadable file. create a product with serveral different pdfs (differing in their security code)...could that work?

2.) Is there a module which allows to render a unique code into a pdf? And at wihich place it could be integrated into uebercart?

Many questions...
Thanx for your help

mình mới tìm hiểu về Drupal. Mình muốn hỏi là trong Drupal có thể xem được số lần khách đọc tin không? Như trong phần quản trị của joomla có phần content, nó thống kê được số lần xem tin (Hits).

Hi,

I am looking for a solution to help me build a website where I can have several "profiles" which are then linked to/from news articles.

The best way to explain this would be with a real life example - goal.com

First I am new at Drupal and my apologies, where should I start? Download the latest? Which Operating system is better for hosting, windows or linux