Before you start

As some particularly brilliant people may have guessed (Does my username give anything away?), I volunteer at a small library with about 4 other people. Out of these four people, I am the only one under 55, so predictably I am the geek-in-residence.

Hi......

I am beginner in drupal's website creation.
so i want to know about that, how to create our site with drupal in PHP and MySQL.
Please described step-by-step for using Drupal 7.i am install Drupal 7.0 in our local server.

anyone can halp me............
Thank's in advance
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I'm starting work soon on a decent sized site, and am trying to decide between Drupal 6 and 7. The site is launching sometime this summer and will really get going on the development in a few weeks. The site will be integrated with several databases that I have already set up, and I will be looking to add a calendar functionality, a secure member area, as well as use of audio and video clips. I have a little bit of experience with Drupal 6, but would definitely not consider myself an expert (or even close).

I am a Drupal newbie. I have installed Drupal 7 locally and I am learning it with a view to building a couple of quite small websites for educational/charitable organisations here in the UK.

Sadly I am finding that very few UK web hosts seem currently (March 2011) to be able to offer Drupal 7 hosting on their shared servers, due to its dependence on PHP 5.3. When I ask when this situation might change, they are unable to tell me. This is a big problem, because a dedicated server would be beyond the means (and also the needs ...) of either of the projects I am engaged in.

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to figure out if Drupal will be right for a new project. Basically, a school would like to have a Programs area. This area will have sub-pages, such as Elementary School, then drilling down to a subject and possibly a certain class. What they would like is the ability to reference/relate a Drupal user (whom which will be a teacher) to these pages. So, it would look something like this:

Class Title: Math 101

This is a description for the Math 101 page.

Teacher (automatically generated): John Smith (links to profile)

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Hey,
I run http://www.tastyfresh.com. The site has been around since 1996 and in Joomla for about five or six years now. I think I've hit the limit of what Joomla and their community can really do for me and I'm considering Drupal as an option. One main thing I'm looking for are custom fields for articles... which I've seen Drupal has.

Please take a look around my site and let me know if Drupal might be a better solution. Here are a few of the main things I'm trying to do with it.

1) Develop an online community that extends to the physical world as well as virtual.
2) Inform and educate people about our small community and its involvement in a much larger one.
3) Entertain people with podcasts, articles and events.

Here are a few of the major compontents that we're using to accomplish this now:

1) Forums (currently we're using Kunena)
2) Social Networking (currently we're using JomSocial)
3) Articles (native Joomla features)
4) Podcasting (native Joomla features with a plugin/component to help with the feeds)