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I want to create a site (community really) that incorporates forums.

A place where contributors with special permissions can add/edit articles. The site will be knowledgebase based :)
Users need to be able to add comments and such.

I'm very new to drupal. Never worked with it before. Just want to use something different to joomla and I hear drupal is powerful too.
It seems like a very steep learning curve. I have next to no design skills so I'll need to have a designer on board.

How easy is it to administer too?

Thanks,

I'm fairly new to Drupal so excuse me if this seems obvious. I am soon to develop a brochure site which contains details of many products and their specifications. Each product will have at least one (there may be multiple versions of some products) specification table as well as pictures and description text. I would like these specifications to be searchable so for example if one of the specifications was product colour then you could list all the red products.

Help! We are new at this. We need our website's 'home' page to have a Paid Membership status, where visitors must 'Log In' or 'Sign Up' in order to have access to most of the site. How do we do this!!!

Any advice or help with this is greatly appreciated. Wendy Kirwan, CEO/Owner Wildfire Ways, Inc.

Hi Everyone,

I am new to drupal and developing in general. I am trying to build a review site. I want to use panels to generate pages which contain information about an organization and associated reviews. I have gone through several tutorials and have not found the information I need. Does someone know of some documentation that could help me?

Thanks,
Lauren

I would like to build a website with the same functionality as istockphoto.com.
Which means, a database of my photo collection (about 50,000), a search engine, a specific page for each photo and forum.
I have pretty good skills in programings, like Java, C, Data Structures..

My question is, what's the best way to build this kind of website: using Drupal or Learning PHP+Mysql and programing the website by myself?

I have two user roles with different content profiles. Consultants and customers.
Consultants need to create customers which they can manage. I don't want one consultant to be managing another consultants customers however. Consultants should only be able to manage users they have created. How do I go about setting this up?

I was thinking the customer node would have a reference field to the consultant. Perhaps set consultants to only be able to edit own content. But they still need to be able to edit users which is a worry.