Before you start

Hi! I am a newbie and need help. This is my first foray into site building and I am at a loss. Will someone please help?

I registered my site with "justhost" and got Drupal as part of the hosting package. I've decided to use Drupal (after "research") because it's forum answered the questions of newbies unlike Joomla! whom ignored newbies' questions.

My problem is: how does Drupal work? I've looked at postings in the forum with this heading and ended up more confused because what was being discussed was way above me.

I am new to CMS and to Drupal and need some help with site design and structure. (I have installed Acquia-Drupal 1.2.30 but don't understand how to use it to organize a site with a large amount of content, so felt that the "Before you start" forum was the most appropriate place for this query.).

This is to be a history research site with numerous categories and subcategories (or menus and submenus). It needs to be able to accept data / articles from members and to have collaborative editing capabilities. The members will cover the gamut from novices to professional historians, but very few will have advanced computer skills, so data entry needs to be as effortless and intuitive as possible. I feel the need to also allow for lighter fare (e.g. blogs, photo albums, music, etc.) to increase the participation in the site. Acquia appears to be well suited to do all these things.

There is a proposed menu structure at the URL below, but I'm not sure this is the best approach or how best to implement it:
http://mykindred.com/0test/

What is the best way to organize large amounts of data like this? (Example: articles from newspapers could be all stored under the category "Newspapers" and there could be a subcategory for each paper or for each region it serves or for the type of article, etc.)

Hi Friends,

Is it possible to create multi-site in a single domain having different folder for each site in Drupal 7.

1. And each site will have different content.
2. Also can i use one admin panel to manage all sites.

Any clue will be helpful for me ...

Thanks

I have mysql database which have three tables.

company (Fields: maincode,subcode and name)
Product (Fields: prdcode,prodname)
capacity(Fields: maincode,subcode,prdcode, capacity)

relationship with company and capacity on maincode and subcode
relationship with capacity and product is on product code

I have create the three content type. company,product and capacity.

I try to create the view which show the following

miancode ,sucbcode ,product code, product name,company name and capacity.

Hey hiiiiiiii all,

I m very new to drupal even in web developing.
I just wanted to make a basic website on my pc, I m using Xp as opertating system.

I have no idea how to make local host and database. I just downloaded the drupal.tar file and what should i do next???

Should I move to another operating system or how to install local host and database mysql on my pc

Please help me or tell me any good tutorial for doing this.. I m looking forward for drupal and its community plz help as soon as possible.

Hello. I'm new to drupal, andafter poking around in it for a day, I'm wondering if I'm really using the right tool for the job.

I'm trying to create a product reviews site, using something like this(which I coded entirely from scratch) as a template: www.kniferating.com